Chapter "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
This study aims to investigate the development of a shared sense of identity and community that occurred in Italy from its unification until the end of the colonial empire, and its traces in the republican period. This nation-building process will be examined by analysing Italy's relationship w...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Florence
Firenze University Press
2022
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| Series: | Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
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| Summary: | This study aims to investigate the development of a shared sense of identity and community that occurred in Italy from its unification until the end of the colonial empire, and its traces in the republican period. This nation-building process will be examined by analysing Italy's relationship with the early modern age of the Peninsula and its pre-unification travellers to the East. We will see how the production and dissemination of an Italian national consciousness and sentiment was based largely on the construction of a "mythical past" through exhibitions, collections, printed works, magazines and institutes dedicated to magnifying the "exploits" of travellers and explorers in the East, from Marco Polo to Giuseppe Tucci. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (36 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-88-5518-579-0.04 9788855185790 |
| Access: | Open Access |