The social power allocated to the male gender selects and constitutes quite different perceptions than those of women, whose spiritual core lies in emotional life. In that area, the man is barred from a flight of thought, and again a full concentration inclined to objectivity, while the women can not so easily cling to a system of thought other than the one influenced by the emotions (Klothilda...

The geographic knowledge of Central and Far Eastern Asia was impressively widened, during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, by a great number of literary reports that described the customs, religions, and cultural habits of several previously ignored peoples. Since Ramusio’s times, scholars dealing with the history of European explorations have often taken into account such phenomena as ...