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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... interpretation of the writings of the philosophes . But this always authoritative , illuminating and thought - provoking work must be read not only by students of the Enlightenment and the Renaissance , but by all those interested in ...
... 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.
... interpretations have been put forward in order to explain this contradiction . Geoffroy Atkinson , in Les nouveaux horizons de la Renaissance française , argued that , although Montaigne obtained the facts of the Spanish conquest from ...
... interpreted as providential . That is why , in Tate's view , writers as different as Pulgar and Marineo Sículo " coincide in the feeling of dramatic salvation to which they give expression . " 28 29 The activity promoted by this ...
... interpreted the new reality of the New World and , at the same time , preserved the prestige and internationality of Latin . In fact , Marineo Sículo's excessive contempt for the vernacular contained an element of risk : that of ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |