Touristic and Chauvinistic Perspectives on the Arctic in the Italian Popular Press Some cases of literary and artistic reception, from the fin-de-siècle to the Fascist era

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: d’Ayala Valva, Margherita
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008
• Subjects: Duke of Abruzzi's Polar Expedition; Umberto Nobile; italiensk; travel literature; Arctic; Nobile
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1351; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1351

In this paper, I will focus on non-scientific Italian perspectives on the Arctic at the beginning of the 20th century. Based on selected journalistic travel writings and on children's books and their pictorial and photographic illustrations, I will examine some illustrative instances of the Ita...