The arrival of an Indian rhino in Lisbon in 1515 had an immediate effect all over the Europe, as it attests the little text by Giovanni Giacomo Penni published in Rome on July 1515. But the Penni’s text also reveals the typical vocation of the humanists, in the beginning of XVI century, to understand the unknown with the well-known and to read the world and its wonder animals to the light of a preexisting culture not necessarily seated in the factual reality.
«Forma e natura e costumi de lo rinocerote» de Giovanni Giacomo Penni. Texto y Traducción
SERANI, Ugo
2006-01-01
Abstract
The arrival of an Indian rhino in Lisbon in 1515 had an immediate effect all over the Europe, as it attests the little text by Giovanni Giacomo Penni published in Rome on July 1515. But the Penni’s text also reveals the typical vocation of the humanists, in the beginning of XVI century, to understand the unknown with the well-known and to read the world and its wonder animals to the light of a preexisting culture not necessarily seated in the factual reality.File in questo prodotto:
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