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FILIPPONE Elina
(syllabus)
• Problems characterizing the study of travel literature and in particular of travel in Western and Central Asia. The concept of 'orientalism', starting from E. Said, and development of the discussion on the subject. • General information on the Iranian and Islamic world, in particular Shiite (introduction aimed at placing the proposed themes in a critical historical framework) • The Qajar dynasty in Persia (late eighteenth – early twentieth century) and the conditions of Persia at the beginning of modernization. • Il viaggio di Osculati e De Vecchi in Persia (1841): reading and commentary of passages from Note d'un viaggio nella Persia and Giornale di carovana. • The permanence of Giuseppe Anaclerio in Persia (1862-1865): reading and commentary of passages from La Persia descritta; • The economic studies of Eteocle Lorini and his stay in Iran in 1897-1899: reading and commentary of passages from La Persia economica contemporanea.
(reference books)
Selected passages from:
G. Anaclerio, La Persia descritta. Relazione di un viaggio, Napoli 1863 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LnqKbpXSZrwC
F. De Vecchi, Giornale di carovana. Brano di un Viaggio nell’Armenia, Persia, Arabia ed Indostan, fatto negli anni 1841-42, 2 voll., Milano 2016 (in part. volume secondo)
E. Lorini, La Persia economica contemporanea e la sua questione monetaria, Roma 1900 https://archive.org/details/persiaeconomicac00lori
G. Osculati, Note d'un viaggio nella Persia e nelle Indie Orientali, negli anni 1841, 1842, Milano 1844 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xiK_QPsi5bkC/page/n1/mode/2up
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