Vespucci’s letter Mundus Novus and the legend of Rousseau’s natural man

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  • Luiz Antônio Lindo Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2015.98756

Keywords:

Vespucci, the savage in Mundus Novus, the legend of the natural man

Abstract

The paper aims to apprehend in the letter Mundus Novus of Vespucci a human profile in which the individual variability and the level of civilization can be reduced, through abstraction, to the general form of the “savage”, determined to exploit hedonistically the environment, making himself exempt from any barrier found in the edification of the civilized life. This profile seems akin to the idea of the “savage” plausibly devised by Rousseau as a source of the feeling of existence.

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2015-06-30

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LINDO, Luiz Antônio. Vespucci’s letter Mundus Novus and the legend of Rousseau’s natural man. Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 172, p. 279–297, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2015.98756. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/98756.. Acesso em: 1 jun. 2024.