Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies

Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies

Southern Routes in the Grand Tour

D'Amore, Manuela

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

314

Mole

Inglês

9783319856193

15 a 20 dias

454

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1. Introduction.- I. Learned Travel before the Grand Tour: The Royal Society 1665-1700.- 2. The Fellows' Letters from Distant Countries: New Science, the "Other" and Imperialism.- 3. News from the Mainland: Mapping Physical and Intellectual Spaces before the Grand Tour.- 4. On the Ancients and the Power of Nature: The Special Case of Italy.- II. The Grand Tour of South Italy: The Discovery of the Two Sicilies 1700-1800.- 5. Southern Paths for Learned Travelers: The Discovery of Herculaneum and of the Neoclassical Mediterranean.- 6. Images of "Sublime" Sicily.- 7. From Letters to Memoirs and Travel Accounts: The Fellows as "Cultural Mediators".
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Britons' Cultural Interest in Italy;Camillo Paderni;Sir William Hamilton;The Royal Society;Grand Tour;Sicily;Campania;Enlightenment;Britain;Italy;Naples;travel;Mediterranean;Herculaneum