A cura di Anna-Maria Perissutti, Francesco Visentin e Jiří Hrabal

The Mediterranean in Travel Literature

Central European Travellers in the Mediterranean from the 17th Century to the Beginning of the 20th Century

Beyond serving as a crucial crossroads between Western and Eastern cultures, the Mediterranean simultaneously connects and divides the trajectories and histories of the three continents that border it. Over the centuries, innumerable narratives and events have intersected within this geographical and symbolic space, where literary accounts have preserved, reimagined, and transmitted these experiences. This volume focuses on travel writings produced between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries by authors from Central Europe.

Anna-Maria Perissutti

Anna-Maria Perissutti teaches Czech Language and Literature at the University of Udine. Her primary research interests concern Czech semantics and syntax, textual linguistics, and literary translation. Among her recent publications is the volume Classi di verbi cechi tra semantica e sintassi (Aracne, 2022).
Francesco Visentin

Francesco Visentin teaches Human Geography at the University of Udine. His research focuses on the study of landscapes, with particular attention to the relationship between human communities and hydraulic morphologies. Among his most recent publications is Geografie d’acqua: paesaggi ibridi (Marsilio, 2024).
Jiří Hrabal

Jiří Hrabal is based at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc. His research primarily concerns cultural narratology, the history of literary theory, and Czech travelogues from the Mediterranean region up to 1918. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on Czech literary theory and culture.