Othering, Mirroring, and Feelings of Displacement in the Early Modern Mediterranean

This volume grew out of an exhibition held at the Riccardiana Library in Florence, 13 February–13 March 2020, which was in turn one of the activities organized as part of COST Action 18140 People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923) – or ‘PIMo’ for short. The exhibition complemented the symposium Encounters at Sea: Material and Symbolic Mobility across the Mediterranean, also organized by PIMo. The volume offers readers a series of relevant samples from the collections of the Biblioteca Riccardiana whose variety and exceptional value turns them into excellent case studies of Mediterranean mobility. My essay provides an interpretation within the general methodological and thematic scopes of the PIMo project.