Global perspectives in modern Italian culture : knowledge and representation of the world in Italy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century /: knowledge and representation of the world in Italy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- Global perspectives in modern Italian culture : knowledge and representation of the world in Italy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century /: knowledge and representation of the world in Italy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Global perspectives in modern Italian culture : knowledge and representation of the world in Italy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Guido Abbattista.
- Editors:
- Abbattista, Guido
- Contents:
- Introduction Guido Abbattista Part I: Confronting World Diversity, 16-18th Century 1. ‘Reason of State’ and Universal History: Boccalini and Botero Girolamo Imbruglia 2. The Idea of Ottoman Despotism in the Relazioni of the Venetian Ambassadors Giuseppe Trebbi 3. The Turkish Enemy and the Eastern European Space in Giambattista Vico’s Deeds of Antonio Carafa Stefania Sini 4. From the Americas to Rome: Paths of Knowledge Among the Roman Curia During the Seventeenth Century Giovanni Pizzorusso 5. Confronting Nationalities: Italian Jesuits in China in the late Seventeenth Century Irene Gaddo 6. Italian Intermediation and Knowledge of The Languages and Cultures Of India: The Narrative Practices Regarding the ‘Other’ in Missionaries’ Writings Cristina Muru 7. The Mapmaking of the Italian States. Circulation, Transnational Debates and Geographical Networks in the Italian Scientific Academies during the Long Eighteenth Century Marco Petrella 8. A Persian Matteo Ricci: Muḥammad Zamān’s Seventeenth-Century Translation of De Christiana Expeditione Apud Sinas Francesco Calzolaio-Stefano Pellò Part II: Representing World Diversity, 19-20th Century 9. Representing Asia in Il Costume antico e moderno by Giulio Ferrario Rolando Minuti 10. Voices on China in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Culture (1800-1850) Guido Abbattista 11. The World seen from Milan: Illustrated Travel Journals in the Nineteenth Century Francesca Tacchi 12. Columbus and the Others. The Historiographic and SchoolbookIntroduction Guido Abbattista Part I: Confronting World Diversity, 16-18th Century 1. ‘Reason of State’ and Universal History: Boccalini and Botero Girolamo Imbruglia 2. The Idea of Ottoman Despotism in the Relazioni of the Venetian Ambassadors Giuseppe Trebbi 3. The Turkish Enemy and the Eastern European Space in Giambattista Vico’s Deeds of Antonio Carafa Stefania Sini 4. From the Americas to Rome: Paths of Knowledge Among the Roman Curia During the Seventeenth Century Giovanni Pizzorusso 5. Confronting Nationalities: Italian Jesuits in China in the late Seventeenth Century Irene Gaddo 6. Italian Intermediation and Knowledge of The Languages and Cultures Of India: The Narrative Practices Regarding the ‘Other’ in Missionaries’ Writings Cristina Muru 7. The Mapmaking of the Italian States. Circulation, Transnational Debates and Geographical Networks in the Italian Scientific Academies during the Long Eighteenth Century Marco Petrella 8. A Persian Matteo Ricci: Muḥammad Zamān’s Seventeenth-Century Translation of De Christiana Expeditione Apud Sinas Francesco Calzolaio-Stefano Pellò Part II: Representing World Diversity, 19-20th Century 9. Representing Asia in Il Costume antico e moderno by Giulio Ferrario Rolando Minuti 10. Voices on China in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Culture (1800-1850) Guido Abbattista 11. The World seen from Milan: Illustrated Travel Journals in the Nineteenth Century Francesca Tacchi 12. Columbus and the Others. The Historiographic and Schoolbook Image of the Italian Navigators Claudio Rosso 13. The Atlantic Slave Trade on Italian Shores. The Case of The Kingdom of Sardinia (1815-1853) Marco Mariano 14. From The Banks of the Neva: Italian Diplomats and Representations of Russia in 1862-1914 Andrea Borelli 15. Antonello Gerbi’s Discovery of the New World. Life Experience and the Practice of History (1938-1948) Maria Matilde Benzoni … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 945.07
Italians -- Attitudes -- Sources
Italians -- Travel -- Sources
Other (Philosophy) -- Italy -- History
World history -- Historiography
Italy -- Civilization -- 1559-1789 -- Sources
Italy -- Foreign relations -- Sources
Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1559-1789 -- Sources
Italy -- History -- 1492-1870 -- Historiography - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000423297
9781000423259
9781003031093 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367467920
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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