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Informationen zum Autor Nathalie Hester is Associate Professor of Italian and French at the University of Oregon, USA. Klappentext 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 its humanism or Petrarchism"highlight the classic eminence throughout Europe of a prestigious tradition inherent to Italy, one compensating then for the peninsula's lack of a national political identity. Zusammenfassung Focuses on seventeenth-century Italian travel writing, a fertile time for Italian contributions to the genre. This title argues that many of the characteristic qualities of the Italian travel writing examined can be understood in terms of the larger question of Italian cultural identity during this era. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
