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Venice and the Slavs - The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Venice and the Slavs - The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover, Annotated 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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