Abstract
The impact between the old world and the new world creates new knowledge, and new interactions. The discovery of America, a flourishing land considered the Eldorado, accentuates contacts with 'the other,' sometimes 'naïve' and 'primitive', but also 'unfaithful' and 'enemy'. Even the Gonzaga, who already have had contacts with Asia and Africa, want to update their knowledge of the new continent, and the taste for the exotic enters the collection of the Palazzo Ducale. The book deals with the multilayered effects of the so called Great Geographical Discoveries on the Western Civilization by focusing on documents stored in documents stored in the Gonzaga Database.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] The Gonzagas between East and West. Travel, geographical discoveries and exotic wonders |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
Editore | Storia e letteratura |
Numero di pagine | 176 |
Volume | 5 |
ISBN (stampa) | 978-88-93596-69-5 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2022 |
Keywords
- Gonzaga di Mantova
- Gonzaga of Mantua
- History of Cartography
- History of Diplomacy
- History of Geography
- Storia della cartografia
- Storia della diplomazia
- Storia della geografia
- Viaggi e esplorazioni
- Voyages and explorations