O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界
Elisabetta Colla analyzes the representation of the "Asian natural world" in Francesco Carletti's *Ragionamenti* (1594–1606), arguing that the work simultaneously articulates empirical curiosity, cultural imagination, and a progressive alignment with models of observation then valued as "scientific....
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| description | Elisabetta Colla analyzes the representation of the "Asian natural world" in Francesco Carletti's *Ragionamenti* (1594–1606), arguing that the work simultaneously articulates empirical curiosity, cultural imagination, and a progressive alignment with models of observation then valued as "scientific." Departing from the historical context of Iberian expansion and European mercantile circulation, the author situates Carletti within the "Italian model" of traveling merchants, whose narratives contributed to networks of knowledge and the description of foreign environments. Methodologically, the study privileges a close reading of the *Ragionamenti*, examining how categories of nature (plants, animals, resources, and landscapes) are mobilized in arguments, comparisons, and judgments, as well as the rhetorical mediations that transform travel experience into narrative knowledge.
The main conclusions highlight that the Asian natural world emerges less as a simple inventory of the "real" than as an interpretive field in which cultural hierarchies and European expectations are negotiated. In this process, the act of seeing and recording consolidates itself as a device of credibility, yet remains traversed by inherited symbolic schemas and by readings of economic and gastronomic utility. Thus, Colla shows how Carletti participates in a transition between the fantastic and the observable, producing an image of natural Asia that is at once globalizing and historically situated. |
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| spelling | O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 Elisabetta Colla analyzes the representation of the "Asian natural world" in Francesco Carletti's *Ragionamenti* (1594–1606), arguing that the work simultaneously articulates empirical curiosity, cultural imagination, and a progressive alignment with models of observation then valued as "scientific." Departing from the historical context of Iberian expansion and European mercantile circulation, the author situates Carletti within the "Italian model" of traveling merchants, whose narratives contributed to networks of knowledge and the description of foreign environments. Methodologically, the study privileges a close reading of the *Ragionamenti*, examining how categories of nature (plants, animals, resources, and landscapes) are mobilized in arguments, comparisons, and judgments, as well as the rhetorical mediations that transform travel experience into narrative knowledge. The main conclusions highlight that the Asian natural world emerges less as a simple inventory of the "real" than as an interpretive field in which cultural hierarchies and European expectations are negotiated. In this process, the act of seeing and recording consolidates itself as a device of credibility, yet remains traversed by inherited symbolic schemas and by readings of economic and gastronomic utility. Thus, Colla shows how Carletti participates in a transition between the fantastic and the observable, producing an image of natural Asia that is at once globalizing and historically situated. Instituto Cultural de Macau Macau Review of Culture Articles January 2007 Elisabetta Colla |
| spellingShingle | O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 Elisabetta Colla |
| title | O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 |
| title_autocomplete | O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 |
| title_full | O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 |
| title_fullStr | O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 |
| title_full_unstemmed | O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 |
| title_short | O MUNDO NATURAL ASIÁTICO NOS RAGIONAMENTI DE FRANCESCO CARLETTI (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “Ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 |
| title_sort | o mundo natural asiático nos ragionamenti de francesco carletti (1594-1606)在弗朗切斯科．卡爾列蒂之 “ragionamenti” 中的亞洲自然世界 |
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