Gathering the Landscape. Building a Corpus of Representations of Italy in Spanish Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The research will focus on building SAIL’s textual corpus for its first historical phase, through a survey of Spanish texts representing the Italian landscape between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and spanning different textual genres (memoirs, autobiographies, correspondence, as well as pre-periodical), based on archival research in Spanish and Italian institutions. The analysis of selected case studies will also contribute to an initial mapping of the places represented, recurring motifs, and representational techniques, with a view to defining the expressive ‘code’ of landscape representation.