Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

Larry Wolff

Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 April 2002
Pages
424
ISBN
9780804739450

Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

Larry Wolff

This work studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the 18th century, focusing on the cultural elaboration of an ideology of empire that was based on a civilizing mission toward the Slavs. It 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 Dalmations by the Venetian Enlightenment was fundamental to the European intellectual discovery of the Slavs. The text discusses 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.

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