HISTORY OF MODERN CULTURE AND GRAND TOUR

1) Knowledge and understanding

Knowledge and understanding of the major processes of economic and social evolution in modern and contemporary Europe and at the same time of those of rupture and revolutionary transformation on a world scale

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.

Ability to apply the acquired knowledge and in particular the historiographical categories in relation to the different historical contexts and also to the themes and problems of the contemporary world.

3) Making judgements.

Acquisition of an autonomous capacity for critical judgment in the use of analytical tools and categories of historical thought

4) Communication skills.

Acquisition of communication skills in the various areas of confrontation and discussion with both specialists and non-specialists

5) Learning skills

The course aims to provide knowledge of the main historical and cultural themes related to the Grand Tour and the vision of Italy and Sicily in the historical, cultural, cartographic documentation during the modern age. The lessons will be divided into modules as follows

A. Italy on the the Grad Tour and the discovery of Sicily between   archeology and sciences. The main themes from XVI to XIX century (3 CFU).

B.Culture and society (2 CFU).

C.Thematic course: Documents, books, pictures: Travellers’museum in Sicily (1 CFU). 

The first part of the lessons will be devoted to exposing the mail topics related to modules A and B, such as

- the birth of the modern state

- religious crisis in sixteenth-century

- economy and society

- Wars, rivolts e revolution in seventeenth-century

- Enlightenment

Part of the lessons will be reserved for the thematic course (modulo C)  devoted to the social and cultural role of the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily

A. Italy on the the Grad Tour and the discovery of Sicily between   archeology and sciences (3 CFU)

     C. De Seta, L’Italia nello specchio del Grand Tour, in C. De Seta a cura di, Storia d’Italia, Annali vol.5, Einaudi, Torino, 1982, pp.125-263 ;

   F. Gringeri Pantano, L’isola del viaggio, Domenico Sanfilippo Editore, Catania, 2009, pp.2-111

B. Cultura e società (2 CFU). Choose a book as an extension reading  

A. Brilli, Storie segrete del viaggio in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna, 2025. p. 200.

A. Abate, La Sicilia prima del Grand Tour. Cronache di viaggiatori inglesi e scozzesi tra Cinquecento e Seicento, Carocci, Roma, 2025, p. 200.

A. Brilli, Le viaggiatrici del Grand Tour, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2020, p. 200.

F. Venturi, L’Italia fuori dall’Italia, in R. Romano, C.Vivanti a cura di, Storia d’Italia, vol.3, Dal primo Settecento all’Unità, Einaudi, 1973, pp. 200.  

C. Thematic course : Documents, books, pictures: Travellers’ museum in Sicily (1 CFU) 

 F. Gringeri Pantano, L’isola del viaggio, Domenico Sanfilippo Editore, Catania, 2009, pp.116-271.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

The teachers undertake, within the limits of the financial resources, to ensure as far as possible that a copy of the adopted texts is available in the departmental library or (in the case of hard-to-find texts, articles and essays) to make them available on Studium, in accordance with the applicable copyright laws.