Valerio Manfredi

Theodore J. Cachey

Il libro di Cachey conduce il lettore nell'immaginario poetico del periodo delle grandi navigazioni e delle scoperte: percorso impervio, che rischia di sconfinare nell'erudizione sterile, e che Cachey rende invece affascinante, con una fitta serie di proposte di lettura di grande creatività. Emerge dal libro padronanza assoluta della materia sia sotto il profilo storico, sia sotto quello più propriamente letterario. E questo terreno "misto" è congeniale a Theodore Cachey, allievo di Fredi Chiappeli alla University of California, Los Angeles, e con il maestro tra gli ideatori del Repertorium Columbianum. Ne risulta un libro suggestivo e convincente, sostenuto da note ricchissime e mai pignole, strumento insostituibile per affrontare sia le problematiche dell'immaginario geografico nella letteratura italiana, sia quelle della storiografia delle scoperte e delle narrazioni di viaggio.

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Le Isole Fortunate

Michelangelo Picone

Margherita Mesirca

studi in onore di Robert Hollander : atti del quarto Seminario dantesco internazionale, University of Notre Dame (Ind.), USA, 25-27 settembre 2003

Le culture di Dante

These essays arise from a conference on Dante held at the University of Notre Dame in 1993. They focus in particular on three areas: poetics (style, ideology, hermeneutics, epistemology); minor works (textual problems); and reception (in medieval England, in France and in film and video).

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Dante Now

Antonio Pigafetta

On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from Patagonia to Indonesia, from the Philippines to the Cape of Good Hope, Pigafetta's The First Voyage around the World is a classic of discovery and exploration literature. This volume is based on the critical edition by Antonio Canova. It includes an extensive introduction to the work and generous annotations by Theodore J. Cachey Jr who discusses the marvelous elements of the story through allusions to Magellan's travels made by writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Gabriel García Márquez. However, Cachey is careful to point out that Pigafetta's book is far from just a marvel-filled travel narrative. The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies. Expertly presented and handsomely illustrated, this edition of Pigafetta's classic travelogue is sure to enlighten new readers and invigorate the imagination as the story has done since it first appeared.

An Account of Magellan's Expedition

The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522

Theodore J. Cachey

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