1st Edition
Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing
By Nathalie Hester
Copyright 2008
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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This first full-length study in English on seventeenth-century Italian travel writing enriches our understanding of an unusually fertile period for Italian contributions to the genre. The intrinsic qualities of this literature can now be grasped in terms of the larger question of cultural identity in Italy. For Hester, the specifically literary characteristics of Italian travel writing”including... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Italy and travel; What's Italian about Italian travel writing?; Performing baroque travel: Pietro Della Valle's Viaggi; Travel writing and travel as writing in Francesco Belli's Osservazioni nel viaggio; Out to the center in Francesco Negri's Viaggio settentrionale; Repossessing travel writing: the circumnavigating Moderno; Conclusion: Petrarch, the Euro, and the fate of Italian travel literature; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Nathalie Hester is Associate Professor of Italian and French at the University of Oregon, USA.
