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- Title
Ritratto di un «mondicino affricano»: testo e immagini in Marocco di De Amicis.
- Authors
Notarfonso, Silvia
- Abstract
In 1876, after a trip to Fez following the Italian diplomatic mission, Edmondo De Amicis published with Treves the reportage Marocco, an interesting example of Italian orientalist literature. The second edition was published in 1879 and was provided with an impressive and refined collection of illustrations by Stefano Ussi and Cesare Biseo, two of the most important orientalist painters in Italy. This edition, where travel experiences are also emphasized and returned to readers' imagination through the engravings, is the core of the present dissertation. Indeed, iconic and written texts are organically melded together in here, since they are simultaneous and complementary manifestations of the Western artist's look on the Orient. This essay focuses primarily on the bond between the text and the images, and in the second place on the individuation of the repertoire of topoi and solutions belonging to the European orientalist tradition which influence both De Amicis's reportage and the illustrations.
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2016, Vol 13, p557
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/1460