India in the Italian Renaissance : visions of a contemporary pagan world, 1300-1600 / Meera Juncu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juncu, Meera, author.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge research in early modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Italy--Relations--India.

Italy.

India--Relations--Italy.

India.

Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.

Civilization.

India--Foreign public opinion, Italian.

India--In literature.

Italy--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

vi, 262 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Contents:

Changing representations of pagan Indians in Italian culture c.1300 to c.1600

Preconceptions of the Indians c.1300

Transformations of Medieval Indian tradition in Marco Polo's Il Milione

A fourteenth-century religious view of the Indians: Odorico's Relatio and its representation by Mandeville

Gymnosophists, gods and the Greeks: India among the humanists from Petrarch to Alberti

Novelty and humanity in Poggio Bracciolini's representation of the Indians

India "recognita"? The fifteenth-century reception of Poggio's portrayal of the Indians

Following Da Gama's wake: Italian visions of "Portuguese" India (c.1500-c.1514)

Ludovico De Varthema's Itinerario: the Indians of a "New Ulysses"

A polyphony of modern voices: Ramusio's contribution to understandings of Indians

Popularized Jesuit views

Late-sixteenth-century merchant perspectives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1138860824

9781138860827

OCLC:

920016671

Publisher Number:

99964142110