Article ID: CBB787228898

Making Statesmen, Writing Culture: Ethnography, Observation, and Diplomatic Travel in Early Modern Venice (2018)

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Numerous scholars have sought to locate the origins of social scientific research in the late-sixteenth-century ars apodemica, the northern European body of literature dedicated to methodizing educational travel. Little attention has been paid, however, to the earlier model of educational travel that emerged from sixteenth-century Venetian diplomatic culture. For many Venetian citizens and patricians, accompanying an ambassador on a foreign mission served as a cornerstone of their political education. Diplomatic travelers were encouraged to keep written accounts of their voyage. Numerous examples of these journals survive from the sixteenth century, largely following a standard formula and marked by an emphasis on the description of customs. This article examines the educational function of diplomatic travel in Venice and the practices of cultural description that emerged from diplomatic travel, arguing that Venetian diplomatic travel offers an earlier model for the methodization of travel—one with its own distinctive norms of observation.

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Authors & Contributors
Crooks, Roderic N.
Francesco Gaglianò
Dietz, Feike
Rodríguez, María Dolores Higueras
Heiner Krellig
Plebani, Tiziana
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Science and society
Cartography
Foreign relations; diplomacy
Science and culture
Geography
Time Periods
Early modern
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
Medieval
18th century
Places
Venice (Italy)
Italy
Americas
Europe
Padua (Italy)
Lyon (France)
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