This essay is centred on the significant role of British travel writing in the description of sixteenth-century Sicily. The analysis in particular examines Andrew Boorde''s The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge", published in London in 1548, where the author-physician emphasises numerous Sicilian pathologies in a burlesque vein.
Di Piazza, C. (2008). Il viaggio di Boorde. FOGLI DI ANGLISTICA, 2008(3-4), 179-192.
Il viaggio di Boorde
DI PIAZZA, Carmelo
2008-01-01
Abstract
This essay is centred on the significant role of British travel writing in the description of sixteenth-century Sicily. The analysis in particular examines Andrew Boorde''s The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge", published in London in 1548, where the author-physician emphasises numerous Sicilian pathologies in a burlesque vein.
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