Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-220) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Italy and travel -- What's Italian about Italian travel writing? -- Performing baroque travel : Pietro Della Valle's Viaggi -- Travel writing and travel as writing in Francesco Belli's Osservazioni nel viaggio -- Out to the center in Francesco Negri's Viaggio settentrionale -- Repossessing travel writing : the circumnavigating moderno -- Conclusion : Petrarch, the Euro, and the fate of Italian travel literature.
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