The renaissance travel and the aesthetic vision of the other: an approach to the beauty and ugliness of otherness in Report on the First Voyage around the World by Antonio Pigafetta (s. XVI)

Abstract

In this study, we analyze the aesthetic vision of the otherness in the voyages of Antonio Pigafetta (s. XVI). First, we review the notion of the aesthetic in the Renaissance humanism, examining cases of intellectuals and artists as part of their cultural context. Subsequently, we study the perception of the beauty and ugliness in the travel book of Pigafetta, analyzing his sensibility and aesthetic vision about other cultures.