The journey of C.T. Ramage through the Cilento in the first half of the nineteenth century, between geography and history of an ‘unknown’ land

Siniscalchi Silvia ()
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Siniscalchi Silvia: Department of Humanistic Studies University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, 2019, vol. 23, issue 3, 163-172

Abstract: Many travelers-writers have described the characteristics of the areas visited from a critical point of view, with wit and sense of observation. One of the most significant and unknown works concerning this literary current is the tale of the trip from Paestum to Policastro made in 1828 by C.T. Ramage: his sketchbooks are not only a description of the evidence of the past and of the archaeological remains of the Ancient Greece, but a small geo-history of the Cilento (shortly before its insurrection of that same year), as the first stage of a journey that returns a fresco of the South of Italy as it was before the process of Italian unification, respect to its agricultural landscapes, customs and dietary habits, attitudes, superstitions, society, culture, religious and political affairs, comparable with the present context of the same territories.

Keywords: Perceptions; representations; narratives; travels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0007

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