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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... present book constitutes , in a sense , the bringing together of the many disparate themes treated in a trilogy of studies that began , in 1975 , with Professor Cro's landmark edition of the Spanish utopia , Sinapia , followed , in 1979 ...
... present book is conceived to give such an explanation . For now it is sufficient to say that , after the failure in Spain of Las Casas ' efforts on behalf of the American natives to build a permanent experimental utopia , the subsequent ...
... present study intends to place this tradition at the heart of the European debate on the noble savage . In the former study , I made references on several occasions to the possible influence of Peter Martyr on Montaigne . But in a work ...
... present threat to Spain's claim to the New World . In later times , especially in the eighteenth century , " repartimiento " came also to signify the obligation under which local officials and even clergy received and sold Spanish goods ...
... presents Peter Martyr as a representative of humanistic history . Here he turns this myth upside down . In the classical ... present time , and refers to it as the " iron age , " an age of decadence . After Petrarch , Italian humanism ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |