LEADER 03100oam 2200517I 450 001 9910154606203321 005 20230808200636.0 010 $a1-351-92203-3 010 $a1-315-25043-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315250434 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965763 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758660 035 $a(OCoLC)965542373 035 $a(BIP)63369958 035 $a(BIP)13788550 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965763 100 $a20180706e20162008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aLiterature and identity in Italian baroque travel writing /$fNathalie Hester 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (236 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $a"First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. 311 08$a0-7546-6194-6 311 08$a1-351-92204-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. What's Italian about Italian travel writing? -- 2. Performing baroque travel : Pietro Della Valle's Viaggi -- 3. Travel writing and travel as writing in Francesco Belli's Osservazioni nel viaggio -- 4. Out to the center in Francesco Negri's Viaggio settentrionale -- 5. Repossessing travel writing : the circumnavigating moderno. 330 $aThis 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. Appeals to the cultural authority of that tradition represent a means of addressing and overcoming anxieties about the Italian subject's diasporic status during the "Golden Age" of European global colonial expansion. Self-funded travelers Francesco Carletti, Pietro Della Valle, Francesco Belli, Francesco Negri, and Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri are the major authors studied who journeyed through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and America. 606 $aItalian prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aItalian literature$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravelers' writings, Italian$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aItalian prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aItalian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, Italian$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a850.9/355 700 $aHester$b Nathalie$f1970-,$0929990 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154606203321 996 $aLiterature and identity in Italian baroque travel writing$92091181 997 $aUNINA