The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825Penn State Press, 1997 - 226 páginas The curiosity with which Europeans approached the New World was reflected in the writings of Italian historians, missionaries, travelers, and explorers, who described with fascination the customs of the peoples they encountered in their travels. In this study Stefania Buccini examines the representation of the Americas in Italian literature during the Age of the Enlightenment. She begins by analyzing the motivations and circumstances behind the emergence of the myth of the &"noble savage.&" Eighteenth-century Italy had a strong orientation toward the more &"advanced&" American societies of the Incas and the Aztecs, and these pre-Columbian civilizations became the preferred myth, dissociated from any notion of wildness and easily compatible with illuministic canons of progress. However, a new America&—revolutionary and democratic, animated by noble principles of liberty and equality&—was soon formed, onto which the old Europe projected its dreams of renewal. As the New World came to be associated with the English colonies, Benjamin Franklin, scientist, writer of political and moral works, and founder of the new republic, gained the stature of an illuministic myth in Italy.Buccini finds that the myths of the old and new Americas meshed and created a more complex image of the New World for the Italians. |
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... Eighteenth - Century Social Debates 46 3. Carlo Goldoni's " American " Tragicomedies 51 4. The Parody of the " State of Nature " : Francesco Cerlone and Ferdinando Degli Obizzi 5. Pietro Chiari's Primitivism 6. The Utopia of Peru 835 59 ...
... Eighteenth - Century Histories of the New World 77 85 4. Italy and the New America 107 1. The Quakers and the Myth of Pennsylvania 107 2. Benjamin Franklin's Image 118 3. Revolution and Vittorio Alfieri's America libera 123 4. Filippo ...
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Myth Parody Utopia | 39 |
Tradition and Revision in EighteenthCentury Histories | 85 |
Italy and the New America | 107 |
NineteenthCentury Developments | 161 |
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The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825 Stefania Buccini Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825 Stefania Buccini Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |