The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492–1750

Bibliographic Data

ID23799219
EditorsElizabeth Horodowich, Lia Markey
Year2017
Publication date2017-11-16
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNew World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316389034
OpenAlexW2775756846
ISBN9781316389034
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Italians became fascinated by the New World in the early modern period. While Atlantic World scholarship has traditionally tended to focus on the acts of conquest and the politics of colonialism, these essays consider the reception of ideas, images and goods from the Americas in the non-colonial states of Italy. Italians began to venerate images of the Peruvian Virgin of Copacabana, plant tomatoes, potatoes, and maize, and publish costume books showcasing the clothing of the kings and queens of Florida, revealing the powerful hold that the Americas had on the Italian imagination. By considering a variety of cases illuminating the presence of the Americas in Italy, this volume demonstrates how early modern Italian culture developed as much from multicultural contact - with Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and the Caribbean - as it did from the rediscovery of classical antiquity.

Art history · History · Latin American history and culture · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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