Literature and identity in Italian baroque travel writing
By: Nathalie Hester.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780754661948
Subjects: Italian prose literature -- History and criticism; Italian literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Travelers' writings, Italian -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: What's Italian about Italian travel writing?; title: Performing baroque travel : Pietro Della Valle's Viaggi; title: Travel writing and travel as writing in Francesco Belli's Osservazioni nel viaggio; title: Out to the center in Francesco Negri's Viaggio settentrionale; title: Repossessing travel writing : the circumnavigating moderno.