Cosmopolitan Italy in the age of nations : transnational visions from the eighteenth to the twentieth century /: transnational visions from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. (2022)
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- Title:
- Cosmopolitan Italy in the age of nations : transnational visions from the eighteenth to the twentieth century /: transnational visions from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. (2022)
- Main Title:
- Cosmopolitan Italy in the age of nations : transnational visions from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Edoardo Tortarolo.
- Editors:
- Tortarolo, Edoardo, 1956-
- Contents:
- Contributors Introduction Section 1 Italy and the Mediterranean 1. Renato Pasta, Reflections from the East: Experiences in the Levant of two eighteenth-century travellers (1760–1792) 2. Catia Papa, Crossing sights: Women and nation between Italy and Egypt 3. Cristina Baldazzi, Emerging Egypt looks to Italy: Relations and Interactions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Arabic Sources Section 2 Visions of Italy 4. Roberta Gefter Wondrich, Charles Lever’s Italy in the Risorgimento: An Anglo-Irish perspective 5. Irene Gaddo-Daniela Piemontino, Through the mists of Albion: the couple Ball-Parolini 6. Leonardo Buonomo, Beyond aesthetic consumption: Italy in Henry James’s early travel literature Section 3 Italy in the Far East 7. Claudio Zanier, Acquiring advanced Italian technologies: The Japanese Silk and Silkworm Committee in Italy in 1873 8. Alessandro Di Meo, Italian explorations in Southeast Asia 9. Massimo De Grassi, Italian artistic culture in the Far East: Galileo Chini at the Siamese court in the early twentieth century Section 4 Transatlantic Italy 10. Matteo Sanfilippo, Exporting Italy across the Atlantic: The ‘Romanization’ of the North American dioceses and assistance to Italian emigrants 11. Irene Fattacciu, Circulation of knowledge, competing therapies and exotic drugs: The case of sarsaparilla and China root in early modern Italian medicine Section 5 A Florentine View 12. Igor Melani, The cradle of the Renaissance? ForeignContributors Introduction Section 1 Italy and the Mediterranean 1. Renato Pasta, Reflections from the East: Experiences in the Levant of two eighteenth-century travellers (1760–1792) 2. Catia Papa, Crossing sights: Women and nation between Italy and Egypt 3. Cristina Baldazzi, Emerging Egypt looks to Italy: Relations and Interactions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Arabic Sources Section 2 Visions of Italy 4. Roberta Gefter Wondrich, Charles Lever’s Italy in the Risorgimento: An Anglo-Irish perspective 5. Irene Gaddo-Daniela Piemontino, Through the mists of Albion: the couple Ball-Parolini 6. Leonardo Buonomo, Beyond aesthetic consumption: Italy in Henry James’s early travel literature Section 3 Italy in the Far East 7. Claudio Zanier, Acquiring advanced Italian technologies: The Japanese Silk and Silkworm Committee in Italy in 1873 8. Alessandro Di Meo, Italian explorations in Southeast Asia 9. Massimo De Grassi, Italian artistic culture in the Far East: Galileo Chini at the Siamese court in the early twentieth century Section 4 Transatlantic Italy 10. Matteo Sanfilippo, Exporting Italy across the Atlantic: The ‘Romanization’ of the North American dioceses and assistance to Italian emigrants 11. Irene Fattacciu, Circulation of knowledge, competing therapies and exotic drugs: The case of sarsaparilla and China root in early modern Italian medicine Section 5 A Florentine View 12. Igor Melani, The cradle of the Renaissance? Foreign travellers in Florence from the past to present-day times (1755-2020) Index … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 945.083
National characteristics, Italian
Cosmopolitanism -- Italy -- History
Italy -- History -- 1849-1870
Italy -- History -- 1849-1870 -- Historiography
Italy -- Civilization - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000824674
9781000824636 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367565244
9780367565268 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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