The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies
Southern Routes in the Grand Tour
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Beschreibung
This book illuminates a lesser-known aspect of the British history of travel in the Enlightenment: that of the Royal Society’s special contribution to the “discovery” of the south of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. By exploring primary source journal entries of philosophy and travel, the book provides evidence of how the Society helped raise the Fellows’ curiosity about the Mediterranean and encouraged travel to the region by promoting cultural events there and establishing fruitful relations with major Italian academic institutions. They were especially devoted to revealing the natural and artistic riches of the Bourbon Kingdom from 1738 to 1780, during which the Roman city of Herculaneum was discovered and Vesuvius and Etna were actively eruptive. Through these examples, the book draws attention to the role that the Royal Society played in establishing cultural networks in Italy and beyond. Tracing a complex path starting in Restoration times, this new insight intodiscourse on learned travel contributes to a more challenging vision of Anglo-Italian relations in the Enlightenment.
This book illuminates a lesser-known aspect of the British history of travel in the Enlightenment: that of the Royal Society’s special contribution to the “discovery” of the south of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. By exploring primary source journal entries of philosophy and travel, the book provides evidence of how the Society helped raise the Fellows’ curiosity about the Mediterranean and encouraged travel to the region by promoting cultural events there and establishing fruitful relations with major Italian academic institutions. They were especially devoted to revealing the natural and artistic riches of the Bourbon Kingdom from 1738 to 1780, during which the Roman city of Herculaneum was discovered and Vesuvius and Etna were actively eruptive. Through these examples, the book draws attention to the role that the Royal Society played in establishing cultural networks in Italy and beyond. Tracing a complex path starting in Restoration times, this new insight intodiscourse on learned travel contributes to a more challenging vision of Anglo-Italian relations in the Enlightenment.
Appeals to historians of culture and ideas, Italian and British history, and English Literature and Comparative Literature Provides a careful analysis of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century academic journals in the emerging field of British travel Focuses on the unexpectedly close relations between the Royal Society and the south of Italy Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Manuela D’Amore
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Britons’ Cultural Interest in Italy Camillo Paderni Sir William Hamilton The Royal Society Grand Tour Sicily Campania Enlightenment Britain Naples travel Mediterranean Herculaneum
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“This work brings together, practically for the first time, lines of inquiry in two languages, over three centuries, crossing cultural and disciplinary boundaries. The result is a rich account of how the Protestant, rationalist Anglosphere came to terms with a Catholic, romantic, fragmented Italy; and how the British came away fascinated, sometimes appalled, and eventually enthralled. D’Amore augments her findings with an appendix of ten carefully edited letters from the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions. This is an invaluable resource for all scholars of this period, of these places, and of the Royal Society’s scientific endeavors.” (Christopher Hodgkins, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Atlantic World Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)
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