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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... Machiavelli , who is presented as a moral and engaged writer , like Rousseau himself , and not as the cynical , dispassionate observer of human nature he is generally thought to have been . This is only one of the many challenging ...
... Machiavelli's silence ? Gilmore quotes Adam Smith who declared that “ the discovery of America and of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope were the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of ...
... utopia constitute an anti - Machiavellian interpretation of good government , a political ideal which derives from a long tradition of Christian thought aspiring to a " renovatio , " which was being carried on either Introduction 3.
... the noble savage offer such a clear alternative to the Machiavellian concept of the reason of state . After that time the division between Spain and Spanish America will increase if not in a political sense Introduction 7.
... Machiavelli ( 1469-1527 ) and Pietro Bembo ( 1470-1546 ) . In Spain he is between Elio Antonio de Nebrija ( 1441-1522 ) and Marineo Sículo ( 1460-1533 ) , the two humanists who perhaps more than any other contemporaries shared with him ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |