Érudition, voyage et correspondance : les leçons du voyage d’Italie au temps des Lumières
The experience of travelling in Italy during the 18th century transformed the place of scholarship. The long stays in cabinets and libraries reveal its importance at the beginning of the century, at the time of Mabillon, Montfaucon or Misson. The imperative need to consult books and manuscripts then...
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| description | The experience of travelling in Italy during the 18th century transformed the place of scholarship. The long stays in cabinets and libraries reveal its importance at the beginning of the century, at the time of Mabillon, Montfaucon or Misson. The imperative need to consult books and manuscripts then gave way to a valorisation of knowledge built through contact with real spaces. Montesquieu and de Brosses launched the debate: by devaluing certain excesses of erudition, they contributed to the evolution of the figure of the man of letters as much as the meaning of travel in Italy. The antiquarians, archaeologists, botanists, mineralogists and geographers of the second half of the century tended to put scholarship at the service of a new science of places. This was enriched by the creation of scholarly networks which, thanks to correspondence, maintained friendships in which erudition still accompanied the process of knowledge, but increasingly directed it towards understanding the world around them. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-900db41abd184007b4691f2f9e6480df2025-08-20T03:00:23ZengUniversité Clermont AuvergneViatica2275-08272023-03-0110Érudition, voyage et correspondance : les leçons du voyage d’Italie au temps des LumièresGilles BertrandThe experience of travelling in Italy during the 18th century transformed the place of scholarship. The long stays in cabinets and libraries reveal its importance at the beginning of the century, at the time of Mabillon, Montfaucon or Misson. The imperative need to consult books and manuscripts then gave way to a valorisation of knowledge built through contact with real spaces. Montesquieu and de Brosses launched the debate: by devaluing certain excesses of erudition, they contributed to the evolution of the figure of the man of letters as much as the meaning of travel in Italy. The antiquarians, archaeologists, botanists, mineralogists and geographers of the second half of the century tended to put scholarship at the service of a new science of places. This was enriched by the creation of scholarly networks which, thanks to correspondence, maintained friendships in which erudition still accompanied the process of knowledge, but increasingly directed it towards understanding the world around them.https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/2467Italytravelscholarshiplibraryscience |
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| title | Érudition, voyage et correspondance : les leçons du voyage d’Italie au temps des Lumières |
| title_full | Érudition, voyage et correspondance : les leçons du voyage d’Italie au temps des Lumières |
| title_fullStr | Érudition, voyage et correspondance : les leçons du voyage d’Italie au temps des Lumières |
| title_full_unstemmed | Érudition, voyage et correspondance : les leçons du voyage d’Italie au temps des Lumières |
| title_short | Érudition, voyage et correspondance : les leçons du voyage d’Italie au temps des Lumières |
| title_sort | erudition voyage et correspondance les lecons du voyage d italie au temps des lumieres |
| topic | Italy travel scholarship library science |
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