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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... 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 insights offered throughout the book ...
... of a colonial power which attempted to introduce legal and moral principles inspired by the Gospel into its relations with the conquered nations . 8 The second period begins in 1559 and ends in 1616 4 The Noble Savage : Allegory of Freedom.
... Gómara . As chaplain of Cortés , López de Gómara's aim was to refute the moral condemnation of the Spanish " 23 conquistadores which was so clearly and forcefully expressed The Return of Ulysses and the Spanish Utopia 17.
... moral considerations , according to the best tradition of the Italian humanists like Ficino and Valla , whereas Nebrija was more of a grammarian , an erudite scholar , a philologist . At the time of the arrival of Peter Martyr in Spain ...
... moral consideration on his times , the “ iron age , " because , contrary to the American Indians who are free from money , laws , treacherous judges , deceiving books and the anxiety of an uncertain future , the character of 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 |