<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Many travelers-writers have described the characteristics of the areas visited from a critical point of view, with wit and sense of observation. One of the most significant and unknown works concerning this literary current is the tale of the trip from Paestum to Policastro made in 1828 by C.T. Ramage: his sketchbooks are not only a description of the evidence of the past and of the archaeological remains of the Ancient Greece, but a small geo-history of the Cilento (shortly before its insurrection of that same year), as the first stage of a journey that returns a fresco of the South of Italy as it was before the process of Italian unification, respect to its agricultural landscapes, customs and dietary habits, attitudes, superstitions, society, culture, religious and political affairs, comparable with the present context of the same territories.</p></abstract>

Many travelers-writers have described the characteristics of the areas visited from a critical point of view, with wit and sense of observation. One of the most significant and unknown works concerning this literary current is the tale of the trip from Paestum to Policastro made in 1828 by C.T. Ramage: his sketchbooks are not only a description of the evidence of the past and of the archaeological remains of the Ancient Greece, but a small geo-history of the Cilento (shortly before its insurrection of that same year), as the first stage of a journey that returns a fresco of the South of Italy as it was before the process of Italian unification, respect to its agricultural landscapes, customs and dietary habits, attitudes, superstitions, society, culture, religious and political affairs, comparable with the present context of the same territories.

The journey of C.T. Ramage through the Cilento in the first half of the nineteenth century, between geography and history of an ‘unknown’ land

Miscellanea Geographica

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Many travelers-writers have described the characteristics of the areas visited from a critical point of view, with wit and sense of observation. One of the...

The journey of C.T. Ramage through the Cilento in the first half of the nineteenth century, between geography and history of an ‘unknown’ land

Published Online: Jul 31, 2019

Page range: 163 - 172

Received: Nov 16, 2018

Accepted: Jan 24, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0007

Keywords
Perceptions, representations, narratives, travels

© 2019 Silvia Siniscalchi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The journey of C.T. Ramage through the Cilento in the first half of the nineteenth century, between geography and history of an ‘unknown’ land

Published Online: Jul 31, 2019

Page range: 163 - 172

Received: Nov 16, 2018

Accepted: Jan 24, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0007

KeywordsPerceptions, representations, narratives, travels

© 2019 Silvia Siniscalchi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Perceptions, representations, narratives, travels