In fifteenth and sixteenth century Italy, even before the beginning of the Age of Discovery, numerous (travel) reports were written by commercial travellers to Asian countries, soon followed by those to the Americas and the African coastal regions. In Florence, which was a Renaissance center of cultural innovation and a financially powerful hub for the exchange of knowledge, ideas, techniques and strategies, reports from Florentine travelers received particular attention. These epistemic materializations transformed, in primary emplotments, newfound material reality and real-space travel events into codified knowledge. Once they arrived Europe and circulated among European scholars, these cultural materials were then stored in further processes of knowledge materialization. Such secondary emplotments, from 1492 on, refer to a (geographically and historically) global framework that enforces the generation and classification of knowledge. For these purposes reports from travelling authors who already use a humanist standard of knowledge—like the erudite Florentine travelers Vespucci and Verrazzano—are able to deliver precious epistemic material, that, beyond the requirements of power politics, will contribute to re-coding not only the European perspective on the world, but especially the knowledge of the others.

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来自异国他乡的人文主义知识转移：1490 年至 1530 年间前往美国的佛罗伦萨旅行者对世界的认知模式

在 15 和 16 世纪的意大利，甚至在大航海时代开始之前，许多（旅行）报告都是由商业旅行者撰写到亚洲国家，随后是美洲和非洲沿海地区。佛罗伦萨是文艺复兴时期的文化创新中心，也是知识、思想、技术和战略交流的强大金融中心，佛罗伦萨旅行者的报告受到了特别关注。这些认知物化在初级情节中将新发现的物质现实和真实空间旅行事件转化为编纂的知识。一旦它们到达欧洲并在欧洲学者之间流传，这些文化材料就被储存在进一步的知识物化过程中。这样的次要地块，从 1492 年开始，指一个（地理上和历史上的）全球框架，它强制执行知识的生成和分类。出于这些目的，已经使用人文主义知识标准的旅行作家的报告——如博学的佛罗伦萨旅行者 Vespucci 和 Verrazzano——能够提供宝贵的认知材料，超越强权政治的要求，不仅有助于重新编码欧洲人对世界的看法，尤其是对他人的了解。