a) LITERARY WORKS:
D.Fonvizin, Pis’ma, in Id., Sobranie sochinenij v dvuch tomach, Moskva, 1959, vol.II (https://rvb.ru/18vek/fonvizin/toc_vol_2.htm), D.Fonvizine, Lettres de France (1777-1778), Paris-Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1995; N.M. Karamzin, Pis’ma russkogo puteshchestvennika, (izd. podgotovili Ju.M.Lotman, N.A.Marchenko, B.A.Uspenskij), Leningrad,1984, N.M. Karamzin, Lettere di un viaggiatore russo, (a cura di S.Pavan), Voland Ebook, 2018; P.Muratov, Immagini dell’Italia, Milano, Adelphi, 2019.
b) REFERENCE WORKS:
LITERARY CRITICISM
R.Baudin (éd.), Nikolai Karamzin en France. L’image de la France dans les “Lettres d’un voyager russe, Paris, Institut d’études slaves, 2014;
W. Berelowitch, Préface, in D.Fonvizine, Lettres de France (1777-1778), (ed.H.Grosse, J.Proust, P.Zaborov), Paris-Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1995, pp. III-IX; A.G.Cross, N. M. Karamzin: a study of his literary career, 1783-1803, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1971; S.Dickinson, Breaking Ground: Travel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2006; A.Kahn, The visual subject: social order and the aesthetic imagination, in N.M. Karamzin, Letters of a Russian Traveller, (translation, introduction, commentary of A. Kahn), Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2003; Ju.Lotman, Sotvorenie Karamzina, Moskva, Kniga, 1987; Deotto P., In viaggio per realizzare un sogno, l’Italia e il testo italiano nella cultura russa, Trieste, Università degli Studi di Trieste, 2002
Nucera D., I viaggi e la letteratura, in A. Gnisci, (a cura di), Letteratura comparata, Milano, Mondadori, 2002, pp.127-153.

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