Abstract
Verhaghen’s Voyage to Naples A European Vision versus Neapolitan Cultural Dynamics This short article sets out to describe the, at times strident, contrasts between actual Italian history, and the perception of such that informed the experience of eighteenth century Grand Tour visitors of the Italian peninsula. Central to this discussion is the Flemish painter Pieter Jozef Verhaghen’s Fall 1771 journey to Naples. A letter to his wife, included here − annotated and translated from the Flemish − sheds light on the distance spanned between the historical dynamics and local cultures, and the traveler’s expectations that, following a both physical and mental itinerary, proceed along a sort of circle that, in addition to exposing one to the other , still, in a most reassuring way, bring one back to oneself.
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SUMMARY Verhaghen’s Voyage to Naples A European Vision versus Neapolitan Cultural Dynamics. This short article sets out to describe the, at times strident, contrasts between actual Italian history, and the perception of such that informed the experience of eighteenth century Grand Tour visitors of the Italian peninsula
A letter to his wife, included here î annotated and translated from the Flemish î sheds light on the distance spanned between the historical dynamics and local cultures, and the traveler’s expectations that, following a both physical and mental itinerary, proceed along a sort of circle that, in addition to exposing one to the other, still, in a most reassuring way, bring one back to oneself
Ho avuto grande piacere nel ricevere la vostra lettera e nel sapere che state tutti bene, così come gli amici; sono stato incuriosito da tutte le novità e contento della franchigia che abbiamo ottenuto.[32]
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Le impressioni di viaggio del nostro a Napoli sono racchiuse in poche ma fitte pagine, nelle quali il pittore descrive alla moglie rimasta a Lovanio i siti visitati. Grazie alla presenza dei vulcani più attivi del mondo ȩ l’Etna, Stromboli, Vulcano e, naturalmente, il Vesuvio ȩ, il Regno di Napoli fu per lungo tempo una sorta di terra promessa degli studi geologici.
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