Her readers would not have found the Egyptian adventure portrayed in Terra di Cleopatra to have been too unusual or exotic for Annie Vivanti, a world traveller who had already described countless foreign locales and adventures in previous works. Some of these were presented as fiction; others were understood as autobiographical, especially because she was usually her own protagonist. My study shows that Vivanti’s account of her visit to the land of Cleopatra, was highly compromised by her political allegiances, despite the impression given to readers, including by the publisher, that her book was a reliable travelogue.

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• Urbancic, A., (2025), "Picturing Annie's Egypt. Terra di Cleopatra by Annie Vivanti", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Urbancic, Anne. "Picturing Annie's Egypt. Terra di Cleopatra by Annie Vivanti." Quaderni d'italianistica 27 (2): 2009. 93-106. DOI: 10.33137/q.i..v27i2.8580. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Quaderni d'italianistica. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Quaderni d'italianistica under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.