Summary
Preface
Amazon without end: the extravagant roads of Stradelli …. 9
Francisco Foot Hardman
Introduction…………………………………………. 15
Livia Raponi
I. Passages, walks, lost footsteps: Ermanno Stradelli’s trips and the Ermanno Stradelli journey
…………………….. 31
Ettore Finazzi-Agrò
II. The Stradelli-Dalla Vedova correspondence: real history and official representation of the relationship
between an explorer and the Italian Geographical Society ……………… 41
Nadia Fusco
III. From Piacenza to Uaupés and from Uaupés to Genoa: the ethnographic collection of Ermanno Stradelli
……………………… 61
Loredana Nelli Dias
IV. Stradelli, Dictionnaire and Translator …………………………………….. 99
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro
Marcel Twardowsky Ávila
Antônio Fernandes Goes Neto
V. The Mysteries of Ermanno Stradelli in the Amazon
Robério Braga
VI. History and poetry in Stradelli ……………………………………… 153
Aurora Fornoni Bernardini
VII. Stradelli and the myth of Jurupari …………………………………….. 173
Ettore Biocca
VIII. Sex and narrative: an introduction to the adventures of Jurupari ……………………….. 183
Sérgio Medeiros
IX. A white wai-mahsu in Toucan cosmology ………………………………………… 195
João Paulo Lima Barreto
X. A più voci: trails and seductions in the Amazon by Ermanno Stradelli ……………………………… 211
Livia Raponi
Ermanno Stradelli’s Essential Chronology …………………………………………. 235
1. Bibliography ……………………………………….. 243