ABSTRACT
This final chapter teases out the similarities and differences in the three “Italian” chroniclers’ semiotic creation of the “Filipino” colonised subjects, while carefully accounting for the spatial and temporal divergences between their travels. The key novelty of this reading is the proposal of a counterpoint to postcolonial interpretations of Italian travel narrative that disregard the ambivalent subjectivity of “Italian” travellers as liminal figures themselves, whose pursuit of knowledge and textual production were valuable to the Empire, but whose lack of a national origin cast them as outsiders.
