Charles Scribner di New York City) nonché successivamente tradotta in Italiano.
sapere umanistico, linguistico, geografico, scientifico, giuridico.
un forte interesse per i suoi insegnamenti e a dare risalto alla sua eredità culturale.
23rd July 2012 was the Hundred and Thirtieth anniversary of the death of George Perkins Marsh (Woodstock March 15, 1801 – Vallombrosa July 23, 1882). In this essay the attention is concentrated particularly on George Perkins Marsh and Italy, where his masterpiece Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action was completed (it was published in 1864 by Charles Scribner of New York City) and then also translated into Italian. George Perkins Marsh, citizen of the United States of America (born in Vermont), well-known in America as one of the pioneers of the Conservation Movement and Environmentalism, is not always sufficiently renowned as a statesman and an adroit and influential diplomat. On the contrary, during his Office in Italy and at the time of his decease he was of great political and cultural importance and had a following in the newborn unified Italian State. Therefore, Italian readers would find it relevant to deepen their knowledge about George Perkins Marsh, author of the first comprehensive study of the destructive human impact on nature as well as about his diplomatic activity, especially because he lived in Italy from June 1861 in the role of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Italy until his death in July 1882. It is true that in 2011 the role of George Perkins Marsh, in the rise of the modern conception of Environmentalism, was sometimes remembered on the occasion of the Hundred and Fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Unification, but actually the memory of him had considerably diminished in Italy in the course of the 20th Century, although American Geography of the second half of the 20th century had started to renew its own interest in his teachings and to delve into his cultural legacy. This essay is divided into two parts. Part One, written in 2014, is intended for European readers, chiefly Italian, and is the completion of Part Two, that was originally written, in 2012, for the Conference at the Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) titled George Perkins Marsh: An American for All Seasons: it has to be underlined that for this paper Part Two has been changed and enlarged.