Conference report: Connecting Mediterranean and Atlantic history. 2nd meeting of the Atlantic Italies Network (Nice, 8-9 November 2018)

by Eva Dal Canto (text) and Riccardo E. Rossi (images)

First published on H-Soz-Kult

To the conference programme

The numerous entanglements between the Italian-speaking area and the Atlantic world have often been reduced to a handful of isolated “heroic” deeds, fuelling the myth of “Italian” navigators and explorers, rather than being examined as the result of broader connections between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Read more