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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... importance of the contribution of the early historians of America - on that occasion Peter Martyr ( 1457-1526 ) to the development of Renaissance utopias and the idea of the noble savage . Since then , I have read with profit and ...
... important element of Italian Humanism : the freedom to choose in order to improve one's self . As he puts it , echoing a famous passage from Pico della Mirandola's De hominis dignitate : " there is one further distinguishing ...
... important events recorded in the history of mankind . " 4 But the same sentiments concerning the discovery of America can be found over two centuries earlier in Peter Martyr's De Orbe Novo ( 1493-1530 ) and Francisco López de Gómara's ...
... important literary utopia of Spain , the Quijote . During this period , Juan de Mariana published De Rege ( 1599 ) and , almost at the same time , the Jesuits founded the Reductions in Paraguay . This represents the overlapping of the ...
... importance of the method of expression , as a grammarian would do , rather than the history itself , which would be all important to an historian . " 31 Peter Martyr's solution represented a step forward toward the conception 20 The ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |