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Venice and the Slavs - The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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Venice and the Slavs - The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of
Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural
elaboration of an ideology of empire that was based on a civilizing
mission toward the Slavs. The book argues that the Enlightenment
within the "Adriatic Empire" of Venice was deeply concerned with
exploring the economic and social dimensions of backwardness in
Dalmatia, in accordance with the evolving distinction between
"Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe" across the continent. It
further argues that the primitivism attributed to Dalmatians by the
Venetian Enlightenment was fundamental to the European intellectual
discovery of the Slavs. The book begins by discussing Venetian
literary perspectives on Dalmatia, notably the drama of Carlo
Goldoni and the memoirs of Carlo Gozzi. It then studies the work
that brought the subject of Dalmatia to the attention of the
European Enlightenment: the travel account of the Paduan
philosopher Alberto Fortis, which was translated from Italian into
English, French, and German. The next two chapters focus on the
Dalmatian inland mountain people called the Morlacchi, famous as
"savages" throughout Europe in the eighteenth century. The
Morlacchi are considered first as a concern of Venetian
administration and then in relation to the problem of the "noble
savage," anthropologically studied and poetically celebrated. The
book then describes the meeting of these administrative and
philosophical discourses concerning Dalmatia during the final
decades of the Venetian Republic. It concludes by assessing the
legacy of the Venetian Enlightenment for later perspectives on
Dalmatia and the South Slavs from Napoleonic Illyria to
twentieth-century Yugoslavia.
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