Italy was perceived not just as the European South but also as the "Orient" in nineteenth-century travelogues. This volume lays the most important theoretical foundations for systematic studies into "Oriental" Italy by looking at the examples of Palermo and Apulia through European travelogues. It also addresses Italy's historical, rhetorical, symbolic, and aesthetic ambiguities.

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Laurian Kanzleiter, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany.