1st Edition
Cosmopolitan Italy in the Age of Nations Transnational Visions from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
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? Foreign travellers in Florence from the past to present-day times (1755-2020)
Index
Biography
Edoardo Tortarolo is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy. He received his PhD in history from the University of Turin in 1987. He is a permanent fellow of the Academy of the Sciences in Turin. He has co-edited the Oxford History of Historical Writing (2012).
