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Author:   Edoardo Tortarolo
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780367565268

ISBN 10:   0367565269
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 December 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contributors Introduction Section 1 Italy and the Mediterranean 1. Renato Pasta, Reflections from the East: Experiences in the Levant of two eighteenth-century travellers (1760–1792) 2. Catia Papa, Crossing sights: Women and nation between Italy and Egypt 3. Cristina Baldazzi, Emerging Egypt looks to Italy: Relations and Interactions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Arabic Sources Section 2 Visions of Italy 4. Roberta Gefter Wondrich, Charles Lever’s Italy in the Risorgimento: An Anglo-Irish perspective 5. Irene Gaddo-Daniela Piemontino, Through the mists of Albion: the couple Ball-Parolini 6. Leonardo Buonomo, Beyond aesthetic consumption: Italy in Henry James’s early travel literature Section 3 Italy in the Far East 7. Claudio Zanier, Acquiring advanced Italian technologies: The Japanese Silk and Silkworm Committee in Italy in 1873 8. Alessandro Di Meo, Italian explorations in Southeast Asia 9. Massimo De Grassi, Italian artistic culture in the Far East: Galileo Chini at the Siamese court in the early twentieth century Section 4 Transatlantic Italy 10. Matteo Sanfilippo, Exporting Italy across the Atlantic: The ‘Romanization’ of the North American dioceses and assistance to Italian emigrants 11. Irene Fattacciu, Circulation of knowledge, competing therapies and exotic drugs: The case of sarsaparilla and China root in early modern Italian medicine Section 5 A Florentine View 12. Igor Melani, The cradle of the Renaissance? Foreign travellers in Florence from the past to present-day times (1755-2020) Index

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Edoardo Tortarolo is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy. He received his PhD in history from the University of Turin in 1987. He is a permanent fellow of the Academy of the Sciences in Turin. He has co-edited the Oxford History of Historical Writing (2012).

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