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Imago Mundi: the travel instructions as an education of the eye and revelation of the world, Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries

Abstract

The instructions for travelers are related to the need to establish a method for the voyage, to make it more suitable to fulfill the desire of scientific objectivity and truth at a time in which the acquisition of knowledge was no longer linked to the pure acceptance and simple tradition, but through practice and reflection. The purpose of this article is to highlight the interference of subjectivity and picturesque subject in the production of travel instructions and the increasing interest in moving frames of the visited societies, verbal paintings that reveal feelings, actions and the moral life of society.

Instructions; Travel Literature; Picturesque Travels


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