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" Correcting Europe's error: Venetian cosmopolites on Turkish 'literature' "
Terrance J. Mintner
Wandel, Lee P.; Mazzaoui, Maureen F.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804342
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TL49170
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1859912500; 10254374
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Jimoh, Haolat Oladunni
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Correcting Europe's error: Venetian cosmopolites on Turkish 'literature'\ Terrance J. MintnerWandel, Lee P.; Mazzaoui, Maureen F.
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The University of Wisconsin - Madison
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2017
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Ph.D.
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History
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2017
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260
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Committee members: Broman, Thomas H.; Chamberlain, Michael; Chamedes, Giuliana; Desan, Suzanne M.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-50569-6
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After serving four years as Venice’s head ambassador to the Ottoman Turks, Giovanni Battista Donà published a brief treatise titled <i>Della Letteratura de’ Turchi</i> (1688). Under the rubric of “literature,” it guided the reader through the largely unknown terrain of Turkish learning, documenting the nation’s advances in the arts, letters, and sciences. The treatise – the first known of its kind – spawned a revisionist thread as more writers took up Donà’s core aim: overturning the entrenched “error” among many Europeans who continued to believe the Turks were immersed in ignorance. Roughly one-hundred years later, another Venetian by the name of Giambattista Toderini wrote a longer treatise with a slightly altered title, <i>Letteratura turchesca </i> (1787).
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European history
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Social sciences;Cosmopolitanism;Diplomacy;Literature;Republic of letters;Turks;Venice
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Wandel, Lee P.; Mazzaoui, Maureen F.
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HistoryThe University of Wisconsin - Madison
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