Rereading Travellers to the East
Shaping Identities and Building the Nation in Post-unification Italy
- Edited by:
- Beatrice Falcucci,
- Emanuele Giusti,
- Davide Trentacoste,
Rereading Travellers to the East aims to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in the political, economic, cultural and intellectual life of post-unification Italy. The authors highlight how this literature has been reinterpreted and reused for political and ideological purposes in the context of the formation and reformation of collective identities, from the Risorgimento to the Fascist regime and the early republic. By showing the potential of the notion of rereading, the volume outlines a history of the political and cultural legacy of travel literature which goes well beyond Italy.
- Keywords:
- Italy,
- nation-building,
- orientalism,
- travel literature,
- rereading,
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0
- Series: Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
- Scientific Board
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
University of L'Aquila, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1533-2097
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3483-5984
University of Teramo, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0303-9344
Emanuele Giusti obtained a dual PhD in 2021 from the University of Florence and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. He is now a post-doc researcher at the University of Florence. His first monograph, dealing with the reception of Iranian monuments in eighteenth-century European culture from an intellectual history perspective, is scheduled for 2023.
Davide Trentacoste obtained a dual PhD on diplomatic relations between Medici Tuscany and Safavid Persia in the seventeenth century from the University of Teramo and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. His research interests mainly concern Mediterranean history in the modern age and the relationship between Europe and the Levant, on which he has published several articles.
Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste
New Perspectives on Nation-building and Orientalism in Italy from the Risorgimento to the Republic- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.9-28
Beatrice Falcucci
“Rievocare certe nobili opere dei nostri maggiori”: the Istituto per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (IsMEO) and the “Myth” of Italian Travellers to the East- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.29-64
Fabrizio De Donno
Rereading Italian Travellers to Africa: Precursors, Identities and Interracial Relations in Narratives of Italian Colonialism- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.65-82
Alessandro Tripepi
Unsheathing the Katana. The Long Fortune of the First Two Japanese Embassies in Italy: Rediscovery and Rereading between Continuity and Discontinuity (1873–1905)- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.83-101
Aglaia De Angeli
Lodovico Nocentini: A Rereader of Modern Italian Travellers to China- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.103-123
Luca Orlandi
Searching for ‘Italianità’ in the Dodecanese Islands (1912–1943). Some Considerations on Art, Architecture and Archaeology through the Works of Hermes Balducci- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.125-140
Davide Trentacoste
Medici Ambitions and Fascist Policies. (Re)reading the Relations between Italy and the Levant in the 1930s through the Historiography on Fakhr al-Dīn II- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.141-160
Laura De Giorgi
An Italian Hero for China. Reading Marco Polo in the Fascist Era- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.161-180
Emanuele Giusti
The Idea of Italian Travellers to Iran. Scholarly Research and Cultural Diplomacy in Post-war Italy- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.181-210
pp.211-220
- Publication Year: 2022
- Pages: 232
- eISBN: 978-88-5518-579-0
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2022 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2022
- Pages: 232
- ISBN: 978-88-5518-578-3
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2022 Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Rereading Travellers to the East
Book Subtitle
Shaping Identities and Building the Nation in Post-unification Italy
Editors
Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
232
Publication Year
2022
Copyright Information
© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-578-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-579-0
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-580-6
Series Title
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
Series ISSN
2975-0393
Series E-ISSN
2975-0261
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