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The book discusses the experience of two Florentine travellers in the Levant from the 1760s to 1792. During their separate stays in Cyprus and in Istanbul they visited the Holy Land, Anatolia and Mesopotamia providing extensive reports on natural history, institutions, local customs and languages as well as data on the economy and the health conditions of the area. Their numerous printed works enjoyed remarkable success and were translated into French and other languages. The inquiry places the authors firmly within the European 'Republic of letters' and testifies to the growing interest for Islam and Ottoman power during the Enlightenment debate on the eve of the French Revolution. Il volume illustra le esperienze di viaggio in Levante dei fiorentini Giovanni Mariti e Domenico Sestini tra il 1760 e il 1792. Da Cipro a Istanbul alla Mesopotamia, i resoconti restituiscono un'immagine vivace della realtà dell'Impero Ottomano, ricca di osservazioni naturalistiche e di una variegata panoramica di costumi, lingue e istituzioni, nonché su percorsi, economia e condizioni sanitarie delle regioni attraversate. Le numerose pubblicazioni a stampa che ne sortirono, quali i Viaggi per l'isola di Cipro e la Soria di Mariti (1769-1776) e il Viaggio da Costantinopoli a Bassora di Sestini (1786) conobbero notevole fortuna e furono tradotte in varie lingue. Il volume attesta l'appartenenza degli autori alla 'Repubblica delle lettere' e il crescente interesse per l'Islam e il mondo ottomano nel dibattito illuminista alle soglie della Rivoluzione francese.

Travelers' writings, Italian --- History and criticism.

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The book discusses the experience of two Florentine travellers in the Levant from the 1760s to 1792. During their separate stays in Cyprus and in Istanbul they visited the Holy Land, Anatolia and Mesopotamia providing extensive reports on natural history, institutions, local customs and languages as well as data on the economy and the health conditions of the area. Their numerous printed works enjoyed remarkable success and were translated into French and other languages. The inquiry places the authors firmly within the European 'Republic of letters' and testifies to the growing interest for Islam and Ottoman power during the Enlightenment debate on the eve of the French Revolution. Il volume illustra le esperienze di viaggio in Levante dei fiorentini Giovanni Mariti e Domenico Sestini tra il 1760 e il 1792. Da Cipro a Istanbul alla Mesopotamia, i resoconti restituiscono un'immagine vivace della realtà dell'Impero Ottomano, ricca di osservazioni naturalistiche e di una variegata panoramica di costumi, lingue e istituzioni, nonché su percorsi, economia e condizioni sanitarie delle regioni attraversate. Le numerose pubblicazioni a stampa che ne sortirono, quali i Viaggi per l'isola di Cipro e la Soria di Mariti (1769-1776) e il Viaggio da Costantinopoli a Bassora di Sestini (1786) conobbero notevole fortuna e furono tradotte in varie lingue. Il volume attesta l'appartenenza degli autori alla 'Repubblica delle lettere' e il crescente interesse per l'Islam e il mondo ottomano nel dibattito illuminista alle soglie della Rivoluzione francese.

Travelers' writings, Italian --- History and criticism.

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Marco Polo, Christophe Colomb et quelques autres explorateurs de légende ont complètement occulté nombre d'aventuriers de la fin du Moyen Âge, aujourd'hui inconnus du grand public. Ce livre exhume la mémoire de quatre d'entre eux, dont les voyages se sont déroulés entre les années 1390 et 1450. Les deux premiers, Ogier d'Anglure et Nompar de Caumont, ont fait le pèlerinage traditionnel à Jérusalem. Quelques années plus tard, l'infatigable Guillebert de Lannoy passera sa vie sur les routes, tandis que Bertrandon de la Broquière accomplira une mission d'espionnage, dont le récit novateur dépasse les clichés de la culture médiévale.Pourquoi réunir ces quatre aventuriers dans un même livre ? Ensemble, ils embrassent les différentes formes du voyage nobiliaire : les campagnes militaires, les expéditions quasi-ritualisées que sont le pèlerinage ou l'ambassade, les explorations motivées par la volonté de voir le monde. Surtout, ces nobles commencent à écrire eux-mêmes le récit de leurs voyages et posent les jalons d'un genre littéraire émergent. L'analyse de leurs oeuvres se trouve donc au coeur de l'ouvrage.Ce livre a vocation à étudier par quels moyens spécifiques voyage la noblesse et quel est son « vécu ». Il répond également à la question du rôle que pouvait jouer cette pratique dans la vie de l'aristocratie tardomédiévale dans l'espace français, mais aussi plus largement européen puisque la culture nobiliaire ne connaît de frontières ni géographiques ni linguistiques.

Travelers' writings, French --- Travel, Medieval. --- Nobility --- History and criticism. --- History

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"Reframes Polynesia and Melanesia through analysis of nineteenth-century travel writing"--

Travelers' writings, English. --- Travelers' writings, American. --- English prose literature. --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. --- American prose literature. --- American prose literature --- English prose literature --- Travelers' writings, American --- Travelers' writings, English --- History and criticism. --- Polynesia. --- Melanesia. --- American travelers' writings --- American literature --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- Oceania

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Every place is a product of the stories we tell about it—stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. Lone Star Vistas analyzes travelogues that created the idea of Texas. Focusing on the forty-year period between Mexico’s independence from Spain (1821) and the beginning of the US Civil War, Astrid Haas explores accounts by Anglo-American, Mexican, and German authors—members of the region’s three major settler populations—who recorded their journeys through Texas. They were missionaries, scientists, journalists, emigrants, emigration agents, and military officers and their spouses. They all contributed to the public image of Texas and to debates about the future of the region during a time of political and social transformation. Drawing on sources and scholarship in English, Spanish, and German, Lone Star Vistas is the first comparative study of transnational travel writing on Texas. Haas illuminates continuities and differences across the global encounter with Texas, while also highlighting how individual writers’ particular backgrounds affected their views on nature, white settlement, military engagement, Indigenous resistance, African American slavery, and Christian mission.

Travelers' writings, American --- Travelers' writings, German --- Travelers' writings, Mexican --- Travel writing --- History --- Texas --- Description and travel --- Texas history, travelogues, Texas identity, colonization, German Texas, American West, nineteenth-century literature, nineteenth century, nineteenth century Texas.