An analysis of the perception of the New World in Italian literature and culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."This study of the idea of America in the eighteenth century is a remarkably mature book that deals with the great themes of history and utopia, with the 'imaginaire' without ever abandoning the guidance of philology."-Paolo Cherchi, The University of Chicago"[A]n original contribution in a field already tilled by such prominent historians as Antonello Gerbi, Rosario Romeo, and Sergio Landucci."-Gustavo Costa, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley "With her elegant, but firm and lucid prose, Buccini reconstructs this central intellectual debate of the Enlightenment. From Ludovico Antonio Muratori to Giambattista Vico, from Rousseau to Voltaire, from Goldoni to Pietro Chiari, the well-attained object of her exposition is to clarify the various, and at times, contradictory, terms of perception of the New World."-Francesco Guardiani, University of...

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