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Viajando a la mercantil o apresado de ingleses piratas: dos formas de dar la vuelta al mundo a finales del siglo XVII y dos maneras de contarlo

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[EN] The paper analyses the accounts of two trips around the world conducted in the last two decades of the Seventeenth-century and published the one in Naples, 1699-1700, the other in mexico, a decade earlier. the first case was led by giovanni francesco gemelli Careri, a traveller vilified as fake by whom gave the final impetus to the genre of travel literature from french and British Enlightement. the second case was led by Alonso Ramirez, a traveller who was considered for three centuries just a fictional character. though two texts set in a peripheral place and time, from the point of view of European geopolitics of the moment and of the literary genre of travel writing as well, our aim is that the analysis of these sources could provide some new features to the question of otherness and identity experiences in travel narratives in the modern world, taking into account the differences between European and non European perspectives.