<p> Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America’s original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseau’s allegory of the Noble Savage came from the early Spanish chroniclers of the discovery and conquest of America, the Jesuit Relations of the Paraguay Missions (a Utopia in its own right), the Essais of Montaigne, Italian Humanism, Shakespeare’s Tempest, writers of Spain’s Golden Age, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and the European philosophes. </p>

The Noble Savage: Allegory of Freedom

Literature & Fiction

Cro, Stelio

Essays & Correspondence

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Realidad Y Utopia En El Descubrimiento Y Conquista De LA America Hispana, 1492-1682 (Studies in language and literature) (Spanish and English Edition)

History

Americas

Intl Book Pub

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