Programme

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Core Documentation

The exam program will be valid from the 2026 summer session.

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Trovare, cercare, scoprire. Le tappe della scoperta, in Il mondo dei Vichinghi, Genova, Sagep, 1991, pp. 57-77 (volume disponibile presso Biblioteca Petrocchi).
- Francesco Surdich, Dalle raccolte di scritti di viaggio alle riviste delle Società geografiche, «Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana», Serie XII, vol. XII (2007), pp. 5-42 (https://www.bsgi.it/index.php/bsgi/article/view/7125).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Viaggi missionari, geografia moderna e controriformismo. La realtà fisica e sociale del Giappone negli scritti della Compagnia di Gesù (XVI-XVII secolo), in «Geostorie», XVI (2018), nn. 1-2, pp. 63-162 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/geostorie/article/view/8/7).

Reference Bibliography

Numa Broc, La géographie de la Renaissance (1420-1620), Paris, Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (Bibliothèque Nationale), 1980. Mallory W., Simpson-Housley P. (a cura di), Geography and Literature. A Meeting of the Disciplines, Syracuse University Press, 1987. Cosgrove D., Daniels E. (eds), The iconography of landscape. Essays of the symbolic representation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Peraldo E. (a cura di), Literature and geography: the writing of space throughout History, Newcastle Upon Tyne (GB), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.

Attendance

Attendance is compulsory to sit the exam as an attendee.

Type of evaluation

The examination is in written form, for all. It consists of open questions on nodal figures, themes or events in the evolution processes of the history of geography and exploration. Questions on the theories and methods of analysing travel literature, the types of sources that can be used for research, the historical, cultural and social contexts in which the data contained in odeporic sources are transformed into geographical knowledge. Only for frequent participants (those who attend lectures continuously and the related Travel Literature Workshop, in attendance), the examination takes place on materials provided in class. Remember that copying is a crime. The compensatory and dispensatory measures allowed and adopted for examination papers are in accordance with the VADEMECUM to promote the inclusion process of students with disabilities and SLD (see April 2024), which regulates their requests (https://www.uniroma3.it/ateneo/uffici/ufficio-studenti-disabilita-dsa/).

Programme

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Core Documentation

The exam program will be valid from the 2026 summer session.

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Trovare, cercare, scoprire. Le tappe della scoperta, in Il mondo dei Vichinghi, Genova, Sagep, 1991, pp. 57-77 (volume disponibile presso Biblioteca Petrocchi).
- Francesco Surdich, Dalle raccolte di scritti di viaggio alle riviste delle Società geografiche, «Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana», Serie XII, vol. XII (2007), pp. 5-42 (https://www.bsgi.it/index.php/bsgi/article/view/7125).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Viaggi missionari, geografia moderna e controriformismo. La realtà fisica e sociale del Giappone negli scritti della Compagnia di Gesù (XVI-XVII secolo), in «Geostorie», XVI (2018), nn. 1-2, pp. 63-162 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/geostorie/article/view/8/7).

Reference Bibliography

Numa Broc, La géographie de la Renaissance (1420-1620), Paris, Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (Bibliothèque Nationale), 1980. Mallory W., Simpson-Housley P. (a cura di), Geography and Literature. A Meeting of the Disciplines, Syracuse University Press, 1987. Cosgrove D., Daniels E. (eds), The iconography of landscape. Essays of the symbolic representation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Peraldo E. (a cura di), Literature and geography: the writing of space throughout History, Newcastle Upon Tyne (GB), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.

Attendance

Attendance is compulsory to sit the exam as an attendee.

Type of evaluation

The examination is in written form, for all. It consists of open questions on nodal figures, themes or events in the evolution processes of the history of geography and exploration. Questions on the theories and methods of analysing travel literature, the types of sources that can be used for research, the historical, cultural and social contexts in which the data contained in odeporic sources are transformed into geographical knowledge. Only for frequent participants (those who attend lectures continuously and the related Travel Literature Workshop, in attendance), the examination takes place on materials provided in class. Remember that copying is a crime. The compensatory and dispensatory measures allowed and adopted for examination papers are in accordance with the VADEMECUM to promote the inclusion process of students with disabilities and SLD (see April 2024), which regulates their requests (https://www.uniroma3.it/ateneo/uffici/ufficio-studenti-disabilita-dsa/).

Programme

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Core Documentation

The exam program will be valid from the 2026 summer session.

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Trovare, cercare, scoprire. Le tappe della scoperta, in Il mondo dei Vichinghi, Genova, Sagep, 1991, pp. 57-77 (volume disponibile presso Biblioteca Petrocchi).
- Francesco Surdich, Dalle raccolte di scritti di viaggio alle riviste delle Società geografiche, «Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana», Serie XII, vol. XII (2007), pp. 5-42 (https://www.bsgi.it/index.php/bsgi/article/view/7125).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Viaggi missionari, geografia moderna e controriformismo. La realtà fisica e sociale del Giappone negli scritti della Compagnia di Gesù (XVI-XVII secolo), in «Geostorie», XVI (2018), nn. 1-2, pp. 63-162 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/geostorie/article/view/8/7).

Reference Bibliography

Numa Broc, La géographie de la Renaissance (1420-1620), Paris, Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (Bibliothèque Nationale), 1980. Mallory W., Simpson-Housley P. (a cura di), Geography and Literature. A Meeting of the Disciplines, Syracuse University Press, 1987. Cosgrove D., Daniels E. (eds), The iconography of landscape. Essays of the symbolic representation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Peraldo E. (a cura di), Literature and geography: the writing of space throughout History, Newcastle Upon Tyne (GB), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.

Attendance

Attendance is compulsory to sit the exam as an attendee.

Type of evaluation

The examination is in written form, for all. It consists of open questions on nodal figures, themes or events in the evolution processes of the history of geography and exploration. Questions on the theories and methods of analysing travel literature, the types of sources that can be used for research, the historical, cultural and social contexts in which the data contained in odeporic sources are transformed into geographical knowledge. Only for frequent participants (those who attend lectures continuously and the related Travel Literature Workshop, in attendance), the examination takes place on materials provided in class. Remember that copying is a crime. The compensatory and dispensatory measures allowed and adopted for examination papers are in accordance with the VADEMECUM to promote the inclusion process of students with disabilities and SLD (see April 2024), which regulates their requests (https://www.uniroma3.it/ateneo/uffici/ufficio-studenti-disabilita-dsa/).

Programme

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Core Documentation

The exam program will be valid from the 2026 summer session.

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Trovare, cercare, scoprire. Le tappe della scoperta, in Il mondo dei Vichinghi, Genova, Sagep, 1991, pp. 57-77 (volume disponibile presso Biblioteca Petrocchi).
- Francesco Surdich, Dalle raccolte di scritti di viaggio alle riviste delle Società geografiche, «Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana», Serie XII, vol. XII (2007), pp. 5-42 (https://www.bsgi.it/index.php/bsgi/article/view/7125).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Viaggi missionari, geografia moderna e controriformismo. La realtà fisica e sociale del Giappone negli scritti della Compagnia di Gesù (XVI-XVII secolo), in «Geostorie», XVI (2018), nn. 1-2, pp. 63-162 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/geostorie/article/view/8/7).

Reference Bibliography

Numa Broc, La géographie de la Renaissance (1420-1620), Paris, Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (Bibliothèque Nationale), 1980. Mallory W., Simpson-Housley P. (a cura di), Geography and Literature. A Meeting of the Disciplines, Syracuse University Press, 1987. Cosgrove D., Daniels E. (eds), The iconography of landscape. Essays of the symbolic representation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Peraldo E. (a cura di), Literature and geography: the writing of space throughout History, Newcastle Upon Tyne (GB), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.

Attendance

Attendance is compulsory to sit the exam as an attendee.

Type of evaluation

The examination is in written form, for all. It consists of open questions on nodal figures, themes or events in the evolution processes of the history of geography and exploration. Questions on the theories and methods of analysing travel literature, the types of sources that can be used for research, the historical, cultural and social contexts in which the data contained in odeporic sources are transformed into geographical knowledge. Only for frequent participants (those who attend lectures continuously and the related Travel Literature Workshop, in attendance), the examination takes place on materials provided in class. Remember that copying is a crime. The compensatory and dispensatory measures allowed and adopted for examination papers are in accordance with the VADEMECUM to promote the inclusion process of students with disabilities and SLD (see April 2024), which regulates their requests (https://www.uniroma3.it/ateneo/uffici/ufficio-studenti-disabilita-dsa/).