The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492–1750
The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492–1750
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GBPItalians became fascinated by the New World in the early modern period. While Atlantic World scholarship has traditionally tended to focus on the acts of conquest and the politics of colonialism, these essays consider the reception of ideas, images and goods from the Americas in the non-colonial states of Italy. Italians began to venerate images of the Peruvian Virgin of Copacabana, plant tomatoes, potatoes, and maize, and publish costume books showcasing the clothing of the kings and queens of Florida, revealing the powerful hold that the Americas had on the Italian imagination. By considering a variety of cases illuminating the presence of the Americas in Italy, this volume demonstrates how early modern Italian culture developed as much from multicultural contact - with Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and the Caribbean - as it did from the rediscovery of classical antiquity.
- Though this scholarship has long existed in Italian - and the Italian historians included here are well known in Italy - much of it has never been translated into English. At a time when global history is more important than ever, this volume brings the work of some of the most important Italian global historians to readers of English
- This volume proposes a new understanding of 'The Renaissance' by considering Italian history in a global context and demonstrates that early modern Italy developed culturally, economically, and intellectually as much from global, multicultural contact as it did from the rediscovery of antiquity
- This volume makes significant new arguments about the Mediterranean and Atlantic world, opposing the idea that the demise of the first leads to the rise of the second and instead demonstrating that the two were inherently linked and cross-fertilized one another: an argument significant at a time when Mediterranean studies are so vibrant
Reviews & endorsements
'The essays cover a variety of topics and amply demonstrate Italian curiosity about the New World. Recommended for Graduate students and faculty.' P. Grendler, Choice
'… engage[s] with scholarship on Mediterranean and world history, contributing to the growing field of a Global Renaissance. Much of this scholarship makes tight connections between the political and trade relationships and the cultural results … The importance of [this volume's] contribution to Global Renaissance scholarship lies in the identification of the New World as a field of engagement and cultural reference point.' Monique O'Connell, European History Quarterly
Product details
November 2017Hardback
9781107122871
360 pages
261 × 183 × 22 mm
0.95kg
42 b/w illus. 10 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Elizabeth Horodowich and Lia Markey
- Part I. Italy before and after the Conquest:
- 2. Italy and the New World Elizabeth Horodowich
- 3. Dante and the New World Mary Watt
- 4. Venetian diplomacy, Spanish gold, and the New World in the sixteenth century Federica Ambrosini
- Part II. The New World and Italian Religious Culture:
- 5. Three Bolognese Franciscan missionaries in the New World in the early sixteenth century Massimo Donattini
- 6. Missionary gift records of Mexican objects in early modern Italy Davide Domenici
- 7. Federico Borromeo and the New World in early modern Milan Maria Matilde Benzoni
- 8. The Virgin of Copacabana in early modern Italy: a disembodied devotion Karen Lloyd
- 9. Jesuit martyrdom imagery between Mexico and Rome Katherine McAllen
- Part III. New World Plants in the Italian Imagination:
- 10. Southern Italy and the New World in the age of encounters Mackenzie Cooley
- 11. The impact of New World plants, 1500–1800: the Americas in Italy David Gentilcore
- 12. Renaissance Florentines in the Tropics: Brazil, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the limits of empire Brian Brege
- Part IV. Representing America:
- 13. Aldrovandi's New World natives in Bologna (or how to draw the unseen al vivo) Lia Markey
- 14. Cesare Vecellio's Floridians in the Venetian book market: beautiful imports Ann Rosalind Jones
- 15. Baroque Italian epic from Granada to the New World: Columbus conquers the Moors Nathalie Hester
- 16. The conquest of Mexico in the Venetian operatic: Vivaldi's Motezuma Ireri Chávez Bárcenas.
