Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Italy and Travel; 1 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; Conclusion: Petrarch, the Euro, and the Fate of Italian Travel Literature; Bibliography; Index
Summary
"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."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index
