The description of Finland elaborated by Olao Magno in the Carta Marina (1539) and in the Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555) it is the starting point for a rehabilitation of the extreme lands of the Northern Europe, still poorly known in the 16th century, both under the geographical profile and human. The negative image, delivered by the auctores and handed down by the 15th century, is skilfully overturned : the extraordinary and the wonderful are the peculiar characteristic of those regions and acquire a new and unpublished dimension in the pages and in the representation of the Swedish humanist. He explains to the curious reader which is the real nature of that monstra, the real configuration of those territories, the real character of its inhabitants, favoring the insertion of the Great North in the context of Renaissance Europe.

La raffigurazione cinquecentesca della Finlandia e delle regioni settentrionali in Olao Magno

DOMENICO DEFILIPPIS
2018-01-01

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The description of Finland elaborated by Olao Magno in the Carta Marina (1539) and in the Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555) it is the starting point for a rehabilitation of the extreme lands of the Northern Europe, still poorly known in the 16th century, both under the geographical profile and human. The negative image, delivered by the auctores and handed down by the 15th century, is skilfully overturned : the extraordinary and the wonderful are the peculiar characteristic of those regions and acquire a new and unpublished dimension in the pages and in the representation of the Swedish humanist. He explains to the curious reader which is the real nature of that monstra, the real configuration of those territories, the real character of its inhabitants, favoring the insertion of the Great North in the context of Renaissance Europe.
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