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Ristampa immutata dell'edizione originale del 1882.
I contributi riuniti nel volume, presentati per la prima volta in occasione del I Convegno dell'AISPEB (Associazione di Studi Portoghesi e Brasiliani), tenutosi nel 2012 presso le sedi dell'Università di Roma “La Sapienza” e dell'Università di Roma Tre, offrono un panorama di temi, linguistici e letterari, legati sia al contesto portoghese che a quello brasiliano. I saggi d’argomento letterario rinnovano il contributo italiano allo studio della letteratura luso-brasiliana, rimanendo nel solco di una tradizione nazionale ricca di spunti, che ha visto arrivare proprio dall’Italia alcuni contributi storici, filologici ed ermeneutici tuttora indispensabili per comprendere l’opera dei maggiori autori di lingua portoghese. I saggi di argomento linguistico sintetizzano invece alcuni dei risultati prodotti dalle cattedre di lingua, di recente istituzione in Italia, privilegiando in particolar modo tematiche legate al binomio lingua-traduzione.
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Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings, much of them with an empirical basis, albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance, the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a remarkable variety of images of human diversity. Some of these images were conditioned by the actual ...
The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first, 'The Portuguese in India', includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India, Goa in the 17th century, the Portuguese India Company of 1628-33, smugglers, the great famine of the early 1630s and the ceremonial induction process for new viceroys. A second group focuses on the life, career and background of the count of Linhares, before, during and after his term as viceroy at Goa. The third group consists of studies on travel and communications between India and Portugal, both by sea and by land. The collection concludes with studies under the heading of 'historiography and problems of interpretation', on Charles Boxer as a biographer, and on Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence.