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Textual Spaces

French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage
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Examines how French Renaissance travelers consumed and represented Italian space through writing and the imagination. Includes writings by Rabelais, Montaigne, and Du Bellay as well as lesser-known French travelers, illustrating how the material and imaginative aspects of travel joined to form a space of desire in the French imagination.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Montaigne Inside and Out

2. Textuality, Sexuality, and Political Geography: André de la Vigne and the French Conquest of Naples

3. Space, Travel, and Work

4. The Topographical Narrative

5. Spaces and Places of the Voyage d’Italie

6. Mapping Montaigne’s Rome

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“This study illuminates early French travels to Italy from a myriad of angles: linguistic, political, historical, biographical, medical, and architectural. At the same time, it explores outward, linking historical materials to questions of leisure, militarism, and global tourism. Advancing the notion of ‘performed leisure,’ Keatley smartly situates French travel within a rich context of political, social, economic, and learned textual impulses. His study of Montaigne’s voyage, in particular, proves a tour de force.”

—George Hoffmann, author of Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers

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