Cosmopolitan Italy in the Age of Nations

Contributors

Introduction

Section 1 Italy and the Mediterranean

1. Renato Pasta, Reflections from the East: Experiences in the Levant of two eighteenth-century travellers (1760-1792)

2. Catia Papa, Crossing sights: Women and nation between Italy and Egypt

3. Cristina Baldazzi, Emerging Egypt looks to Italy: Relations and Interactions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Arabic Sources

Section 2 Visions of Italy

4. Roberta Gefter Wondrich, Charles Lever's Italy in the Risorgimento: An Anglo-Irish perspective

5. Irene Gaddo-Daniela Piemontino, Through the mists of Albion: the couple Ball-Parolini

6. Leonardo Buonomo, Beyond aesthetic consumption: Italy in Henry James's early travel literature

Section 3 Italy in the Far East

7. Claudio Zanier, Acquiring advanced Italian technologies: The Japanese Silk and Silkworm Committee in Italy in 1873

8. Alessandro Di Meo, Italian explorations in Southeast Asia

9. Massimo De Grassi, Italian artistic culture in the Far East: Galileo Chini at the Siamese court in the early twentieth century

Section 4 Transatlantic Italy

10. Matteo Sanfilippo, Exporting Italy across the Atlantic: The 'Romanization' of the North American dioceses and assistance to Italian emigrants

11. Irene Fattacciu, Circulation of knowledge, competing therapies and exotic drugs: The case of sarsaparilla and China root in early modern Italian medicine

Section 5 A Florentine View

12. Igor Melani, The cradle of the Renaissance? Foreign travellers in Florence from the past to present-day times (1755-2020)

Index