Slavophilism as a Renaissance Humanist Myth in Mauro Orbini’s “Il Regno Degli Slavi”

After introducing Mauro Orbini’s extensive history of the Slavs, I try to describe how he represents the Slavic past and how such representation evidences the culture and politics of the time of its writing. That is, I argue that Orbini instituted Slavic genealogy using a rich arsenal of Renaissance...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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