Fabulous Ireland- «Ibernia Fabulosa»: Imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy

by Eric Haywood

Overview

This book examines Italian descriptions of Ireland in the context of the Renaissance discovery of ancient culture and reshaping of geography, historiography, travel writing and the fashioning of the self and the other, arguing that Italians of the time imagined Ireland differently in different circumstances, populating it with their own fantasies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034317580
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	04/11/2014
Pages:	293
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eric Haywood is a senior lecturer at University College Dublin, where he is Head of Italian Studies and Director of the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies. He teaches Italian, trains teachers of Italian and lectures and researches on Renaissance and contemporary Italy. He was educated in Montreux and Lausanne, at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh and at the European University Institute in Florence. He is a Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia.

Table of Contents

Contents: Whose World? The Need not to know – Out of this World? Imagining Ireland with the Ancients – Amazing World? Imagining Ireland with (and without) Gerald of Wales – The Other World: Imagining Ireland in the Shadow of Dante – Between Worlds: Imagining Ireland in the Footsteps of St Patrick – Divided World: Imagining Ireland(s) at the Time of the Reformation – New World: Imagining Ireland in a New World – Mad World: Forever Imagining Ireland.

Editorial Reviews

«Together with the quality of exposition, which maintains a clear distinction between fact and comment, this copious documentation makes Ibernia Fabulosa a valuable, usable, and consistently engaging book.»
(Cormac O Cuilleanain, Modern Language Review Vol. 112, Part 2 2017)

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