Chapter “Rievocare certe nobili opere dei nostri maggiori”: the Istituto per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (IsMEO) and the “Myth” of Italian Travellers to the East
dc.contributor.author | Falcucci, Beatrice | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-15T20:07:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-15T20:07:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier | ONIX_20220915_9788855185790_108 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58312 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study aims to investigate the development of a shared sense of identity and community that occurred in Italy from its unification until the end of the colonial empire, and its traces in the republican period. This nation-building process will be examined by analysing Italy’s relationship with the early modern age of the Peninsula and its pre-unification travellers to the East. We will see how the production and dissemination of an Italian national consciousness and sentiment was based largely on the construction of a “mythical past” through exhibitions, collections, printed works, magazines and institutes dedicated to magnifying the “exploits” of travellers and explorers in the East, from Marco Polo to Giuseppe Tucci. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History | |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Italian colonialism | |
dc.subject.other | Italian nation-building | |
dc.subject.other | Giovanni Gentile | |
dc.subject.other | Giuseppe Tucci | |
dc.subject.other | IsMEO | |
dc.title | Chapter “Rievocare certe nobili opere dei nostri maggiori”: the Istituto per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (IsMEO) and the “Myth” of Italian Travellers to the East | |
dc.type | chapter | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0.04 | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9788855185790 | |
oapen.series.number | 1 | |
oapen.pages | 36 | |
oapen.place.publication | Florence |