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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... Classical origins of the Enlightenment , will find this a controversial book . Not all of them will accept all of Professor Cro's theses of which the most arguable , to my mind , is his reappraisal of Rousseau's view of Machiavelli ...
... classical tradition , but had also explained how that secular myth had found new meaning in the identification of that tradition with the native American . Thus , with the experiments of Vasco de Quiroga , Las Casas and the Jesuit ...
... classical tradition and the Italian Humanistic tradition . One example is given by the epistolary exchange between Pietro Bembo and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo : whereas Bembo sees the natives of the New World through the myth of the ...
... classical languages and Hebrew at the University of Salamanca . Perhaps these two humanists represent a beneficial duality which characterized Spanish Humanism in the second half of the fifteenth century . The variety of critical views ...
... classical authors and with classical episodes and comparisons . The military facts , described by Pulgar in a laconic and realistic style , become long and involved episodes filled with the speeches of generals to their soldiers and ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |