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dc.contributor.authorGreppi, Claudio
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-01T12:24:39Z
dc.date.available2022-06-01T12:24:39Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220601_9788855183222_632
dc.identifier.issn2704-579X
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56447
dc.description.abstractIn the issue of Geotema dedicated to travel (“Travel as source of geographical knowledge”), in 1997, Massimo Quaini’s article topic was “The geographical invention of verticality: for the history of the ‘discovery’ of mountains”. It concerns a fundamental segment of the history of geographical knowledge, between eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, involving both the Old and New World: Saussure in the Alps and Humboldt in the Andes. He had already worked on this same topic in other occasions, investigating institutions like CAI in Italy, and mountain’s role in the ‘official’ geography. Such lectures mark a path that, I think, finds a theoretical output in 2006 Parma conference, dedicated to the “end of the travel”, where Quaini spoke about “Between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century: the travel and the new paradigm of geography”: a rich and problematic lecture, opening to further researches. But perhaps before this point of arrival, the new paradigm, I would suggest to think on an idea offered by the Geotema article, where we read: “so, if we want to fully speak of discovering the mountains it will be necessary that the culture of the outside travellers meet that of the mountaineers”. Actually, in Quaini's last lecture I take into consideration, the one at Forte di Bard in September 2006, his attention shifts definitely on the figures of alpine travellers, who may encounter knowledge acquired from local culture.
dc.languageItalian
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTerritori
dc.subject.othermountains exploration
dc.subject.othertravel 
dc.subject.otherlocal culture
dc.subject.otherH.B. de Saussure
dc.subject.otherA. von Humboldt
dc.titleChapter Massimo Quaini e il viaggio: il ruolo della verticalità
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-322-2.20
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788855183222
oapen.series.number33
oapen.pages16
oapen.place.publicationFlorence


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