Cities and the grand tour : the British in Italy, c. 1690-1820 / Rosemary Sweet.
"How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unpreceden...
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2012, ©2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge social and cultural histories.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Experiencing the Grand Tour
- 2. Florence: a home from home; 3. Rome ancient and modern
- 4. Naples: leisure, pleasure and a frisson of danger
- 5. Venice: a place of singularity and spectacle
- 6. Medievalism and the Grand Tour
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.