The Noble Savage: Allegory of FreedomWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 30.04.1990 - 182 Seiten Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America’s original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseau’s allegory of the Noble Savage came from the early Spanish chroniclers of the discovery and conquest of America, the Jesuit Relations of the Paraguay Missions (a Utopia in its own right), the Essais of Montaigne, Italian Humanism, Shakespeare’s Tempest, writers of Spain’s Golden Age, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and the European philosophes. |
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... legend of the Noble Savage . PLATE 3. — This is Plate XXI from Theodore de Bry's illustrations for the Latin edition ... Black Legend . ... 9 This page intentionally left blank XV 44 yo to 54 xiii ILLUSTRATIONS Illustrations.
... Black Legend , " as can be seen in the many reprints of Chapter XXVIII of Campanella's Monarchia di Spagna in the Netherlands and Germany during the Thirty Years War . 10 The literary utopia of Spain must be understood against this ...
... Black Legend " became the reason for a kind of self - criticism , a soul - searching exercise in which some of the most brilliant theologians , missionaries and government officials of Spain combined their efforts with those of the ...
... Black Legend is the view of Spain's genocide in The New World , as accounted for by Bartolomé de las Casas and the European historians who , during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , denounced this genocide , often utilizing it ...
... myth of the golden age appears here in perspective from present to future , whereas in the classical tradition it ... Black Legend which will haunt the Spaniards for centuries to come , and ultimately damage their prestige and empire ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |