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ROBERTSON (William). RICERCHE Storich Sulla Cognizione che Gli Antichi Aveano dell' India. Colonia. 1794. - ROBERTSON (William) RICERCHE Storich Sulla Cognizione che Gli Antichi Aveano dell' India . E su progressi del commercio con quella parte del mondo prima della scoperta del passaggio pel Capo di Buona Speranza; Seguite d'uno appendice contenente varie osservazioni su lo stato civile, le leggi, le formalità giudiziarie, l' arti, le scienze e gl' istituti religiosi defl' Indiani. Opera di W. Robertson tradotta dall' Inglese dall Ab. Comenido Reaixtei [...]. Contenente la comunicazione coll' India cominciando dallo stabilimento dell' Impero Pertoghese nell' Oriente sino ai tempi presenti. Colonia: s.n., 1794. 2 v.; 410 pp.; 300 pp.; 2 mapas desdobráveis.: il.; 200 mm. Italian edition of the work by William Robertson (1721-1793), Scottish historian, principal scholar of the University of Edinburgh and royal historian for Scotland, originally published in London in 1791 under the title An Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India . Robertson wrote it in his later years, as a complement to his History of America , with the purpose of gathering and critiquing Western accounts of India. This study traces European knowledge and trade with India from antiquity, with Sesostris, Alexander the Great, and the Romans, to the 16th century, and gives special emphasis to the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route and the establishment of the Portuguese in the East. A lengthy appendix follows on the civil status, laws and justice, arts, sciences, and religious institutions of the Indians. The title of this edition also announces material on communication with India from the founding of the Portuguese Empire in the East to the present day. Two fold-out maps accompany the text, corresponding to the two maps that illustrated the original edition. The work was widely disseminated in Europe and was republished in Italy in annotated nineteenth-century editions, including those by G.D. Romagnosi, which attests to its prestige as a synthesis of ancient India and Eastern trade. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate