Tre viaggiatori italiani in Turchia: Una breve rassegna di letteratura odeporica
6 August 2021
This study aims to analyse, for the period between 1700 and 1800, the image of Turkey in the Italian travel reports belonging to three different authors: Giovanni Battista Casti, Edmondo De Amicis, Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso. The odeporic analysis is mainly characterized by the content-related point of view of each of the reports in such a way as to highlight the prospective differences that emerge from it. It is hoped that the illustration of these differences will help to portray the socio-cultural landscape, seen by three Italian travellers-authors, of Turkey in the last centuries of the Ottoman Empire.
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