breezaway
2007-09-10 00:12:07
This whole misunderstanding, between continents, countries, is not new. Antonello Gerbi, way back in the ’50s (writing in Italian in S. America) and since then translated into English and Espanol and lord knows what other languages. An intellectual history of the meaning of the ‘New World’, titled “The Dispute of the New World”, subtitled “the history of a polemic, 1750-1900″.
Which is to say that this whole arguement has been going on for 4 or 500 years. Nothing is new here, it’s all a repeat.
So read Gerbi, and become wiser.
