Travels through Italy [electronic resource] : Containing new and curious observations on that country; particularly the Grand Duchy of Tuscany; the ecclesiastical state, or the dominions of the Pope; the Kingdom of Naples; the republics of Venice and Genoa; and other Italian states. Wherein the present state of those countries is accurately describe, as to their different kinds of government, situation, extent, revenue, power, trade, manners, and customs; but more especially their antiquities, as temples, triumphalarches, pillars, baths, amphitheatres, aqueducts, catacombs, ruins, and public ways; as also their modern curiosities, churches, convents, palaces, villas, castes, forts, bridges, and public roads. With the most authentic account yet published of capital pieces in painting, sculpture, & architecture, that are to be seen in Italy: including remarks on the ancient and present state of Italy, of the arts and sciences which have flourished there, and of taste in painting; with the characters of the principal painters, and other artists. By John Northall, Esq; captain in his Brittannic Majesty's Royal Regiment of Artillery. Illustrated with a map of Italy, a route of this tour, and several copperplates, engraved from drawings taken on the spot.