The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe have long been recognized as an ‘Age of Dissimulation’; in the period, their compatriots often depicted English travellers to the Continent as the ultimate liars and dissemblers. This article suggests that Fynes Moryson's An Itinerary of a Journey (1617) is one important example of how travel writers engaged with the charge of dissimulation made against them by opponents to European travel, beginning in the 1570s with Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1571). With particular focus on the role of Catholic Italy in the travel debate, the article shows how An Itinerary negotiates what was perceived as a hostile and infectious Catholic Italian reality to develop its own approach to travel observation at a moment of generic and epistemic fluidity. Via a number of textual tricks, Itinerary turns the threat of the Inquisition into a strategic advantage; ultimately, the travel report represents strategies of ‘honest dissimulation’ as the basis of the traveller's claim to truthful observation.

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“权威说谎”：Fynes Moryson 行程中的旅行伪装

欧洲的 16 和 17 世纪早已被公认为“伪装时代”；在那个时期，他们的同胞经常将前往欧洲大陆的英国旅行者描绘成终极的骗子和伪装者。这篇文章表明，Fynes Moryson 的 An Itinerary of a Journey（1617 年）是旅行作家如何应对欧洲旅行反对者对他们进行伪装指控的一个重要例子，始于 1570 年代的 Roger Ascham 的 The Scholemaster（1571 年）。这篇文章特别关注天主教意大利在旅行辩论中的作用，展示了行程如何协商被视为敌对和传染性的意大利天主教现实，以在通用和认知流动的时刻发展自己的旅行观察方法。通过一些文字技巧，行程将宗教裁判所的威胁转化为战略优势；最终，旅行报告代表了“诚实伪装”的策略，作为旅行者声称真实观察的基础。