Giuseppe Acerbi and the Discovery of Norway in the Late Eighteenth Ce...

This paper aims to analyze the written account of the trip to Norway made at the end of the eighteenth century by Giuseppe Acerbi and published in several languages soon afterwards. Acerbi's travel account is based, in part, on the information that the author derives from the written texts to which he refers, and in part on direct experience. Therefore, Acerbi’s Viaggio in Novergia allows us to explore some of the routes travelled by the books he mentions and to reflect on the role of the book, reading cultures and the public sphere in the Norwegian society of that time.