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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2016  
         
  Article:   FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO THE EUROPEAN VOYAGES OF ION CODRU DRĂGUŞANU.

Authors:  CORNEL-DĂNUȚ MĂRCUȘ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The study analyzes the five European journeys made by Ion Codru Drăguşanu in the first half of the 19th century. The travel routes are analyzed from the perspective of the information provided by the author, but also from other relevant sources which help to identify the participants of the journeys, the names of whom are not rendered by the author, and who until now had been mistakenly identified. We note the trend of coordinating the timeframe of the trip with the event calendar of a certain place, events that become prime attractions for our traveler. The imagology analysis identifies the scenes rendered by the author, presented from a comparative standpoint, aiming at showing similar images depicted by other travelers, European and Romanian, which in itself become the evidence of their transmission. We note the evolving nature of these images, from the volume that had been published in 1865, to the letters published subsequently, in 1869 and 1879 - dates which represent the time the letters were in fact published, and not the timeframe of the travels themselves. The study demonstrates that, in formal terms, certain journeys may be assigned to „Grand Tour” type travels, but most of the images portrayed during the trips fall under the umbrella of the Romantic journey, laced with accents borrowed from the realist movement.

Keywords: Ion Codru Drăguşanu, journey, Grand Tour, tourism, imago-logy, romanticism 		 
         
     
         
         
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