Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Zweder von Martels (1954) is Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Department of Classics of the University of Groningen. He has published a full length monograph on the 16th-century Flemish humanist Augerius Gislenius Busbequius (1989). His edition of the Latin letters of Busbequius was published in 1994. He is the editor of Alchemy Revisited (Brill) in 1989.

• PlatesPrefaceContributorsIntroduction: The Eye and the Mind’s Eye1. The Art of Herodotus and the Margins of the World, Detlev Fehling2. Travel Descriptions in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, M.A. Harder3. Alexander de Great and Ancient Travel Stories, W.J. Aerts4. Egeria de voyager, or the Technology of Remote Sensing in Late Antiquity, Andrew Palmer5. William of Rubruck in the Mongol Empire: Perception and Prejudices, Peter Jackson6. Marco Polo’s Voyages: The Conflict between Confirmation and Observation, Martin Gosman7. Between Mandeville and Columbus: Tvoyage by Joos van Ghistele, István Bejczy8. Travel Fact and Travel Fiction in the Voyages of Columbus, Valerie I.J. Flint9. Different Readings of Hanno’s Voyage from the Renaissance to the Seventeent Century- From Pure Erudition to Ideological Debate, Monique Mund-Dopchie10. Writing in Exile: Joachim Du Bellay, Rome, and Renaissance France, G. Hugo Tucker11. The Colouring Effec Attic Style and Stoicism in Busbequius’s Turkish Letters, Zweder von Martels13. Barlacus’s Description of the Dutch Colony in Brazil, A.J.E. Harmsen14. Gryphius in Italy, Peter Skrine15.The Traveller-Author ad his Role in Seventeenth-Century German Travel Accounts, Jill Bepler16.Thomas Penson: Precursor of the Sentimental Traveller, C.D. van Strien17. Goethe’s and Stolberg’s Italian Journeys and the Romanitc Ideology of Art, Roger Paulin18. The Wheel of Time is Rolling for an End’, Jan H.A. LokinIndex

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