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Ossessione turca. In una retrovia cristiana dell'Europa moderna

Penned By Giovanni Ricci
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Ossessione turca. In una retrovia cristiana dell'Europa moderna

Penned By Giovanni Ricci
4.85 93,766 Ratings
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Editor's Note:
In questo nuovo libro Giovanni Ricci scruta quell'ossessione per i «turchi» (ovvero i musulmani, gli arabi, i mori) che per secoli ha abitato l'Europa ricostruendo una sequenza di episodi che hanno avuto come teatro Ferrara fra Quattro e Settecento. Quale presenza e visibilità, reale e fantastica, aveva il mondo musulmano in una città qualunque, in una retrovia non esposta al contatto diretto come era, invece, Venezia? Privilegiando l'osservatorio della provincia cristiana su quello delle grandi capitali, il libro illumina concreti frammenti di storia del rapporto fra le culture, in un quadro che si allarga a Costantinopoli, all'Ungheria e a Vienna, all'Albania e alla Morea, a Candia, Tunisi, Algeri, Tripoli. Le labili tracce documentarie restituiscono ignote storie di vita all'interno di una ragnatela sorprendente di scambi: vicende di servitori mori e di schiave tenute per concubine dai cristianissimi ferraresi, e di ferraresi a loro volta schiavi dei turchi, cerimonie e riti per quanti venivano riscattati dalla schiavitù oltremare, notizie di battaglie e transiti di prigionieri, macabri trofei ed esotici souvenir, un perpetuo andirivieni di ambasciatori e poveracci, di dicerie e spaventi che sostanziano un rapporto intenso, tormentato, fatto di odio e paura ma anche di curiosità, attrazione, malcelata ammirazione. Un rapporto contraddittorio e difficile che ritroviamo ancor oggi fra Occidente e mondo islamico.

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Length 232 Pages
Language Ita
Imprint il Mulino
Released 2002
Identifier (ISBN) 10059364
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