TY - BOOK AU - Landi,Michela TI - Chapter �D�barquer/d�marquer�: Voltaire e Magellano T2 - Studi e saggi SN - 978-88-5518-467-0.12 PY - 2021/// CY - Florence PB - Firenze University Press KW - geography and hermeneutics KW - imperialism KW - Magellan KW - Voltaire N1 - Open Access N2 - Following Voltaire's Essai sur les mœurs, the first explorers of the new worlds are innocents: they respond to the mythic imagery of the first man. It is on their successors that lays the blame: interested in material enrichment, they despoil the new world. After Magellan, the first geographical demarcation line having been overcome, the culture degeneration of Western world is double: geographic and hermeneutic. Voltaire is in fact not so far from Rousseau's thinking UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/2c0d30d4-193f-4e4b-a2d7-e2ace772336d/24977.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56550 ER -