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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... passage from Pico della Mirandola's De hominis dignitate : " there is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute , and 3 ,, 1 that is the ability of self - 1 ...
... passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope were the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind . " 4 But the same sentiments concerning the discovery of America can be found over two centuries ...
... passage of De hominis dignitate in which the Lord says of Man : " I have placed you at the center of the universe , so that from there you can contemplate everything in it . I have made you neither heavenly nor earthly , neither mortal ...
... passages is López de Gómara's Historia general de las Indias ( Les livres , 76-96 ; Les sources , I , 137-138 ; Bataillon , 353-367 ) . Neither Villey nor Bataillon mention Peter Martyr's De Orbe Novo as a source for Montaigne's Essais ...
... passages of the De Orbe Novo . Another fact was that the conquest of the New World was presented as a new crusade against the new Infidel . As J.H.Elliott has clearly explained , the conquest was deeply conditioned by the medieval ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |