The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated AnthologyManfred Pfister Rodopi, 1996 - 554 pages This is the first anthology of British travel writing on Italy which traces the development of the genre and the history of the British perception of Italy from the Renaissance to the present. As an anthologie raissonnéeit presents the texts in thematic clusters and chronological order, providing commentary and annotations for each of them and their nearly hundred authors (some of them, like Smollett, Byron, Dickens or Huxley, well-known, others virtually unknown, amongst them many unduly neglected women writers). Further features are a substantial introduction to the travelogue and the writing of Italy, more than thirty illustrations visualizing the British experience of Italy, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. |
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... Florence ..... 4.2.26 Mariana Starke : Perfect Decorum at the Scala di Milano .................... 179 .178 .178 .179 4.2.27 William Hazlitt : At the Turin Opera House .. 4.2.28 William Hazlitt : In Praise of Guido Reni . 4.2.29 Richard ...
... Florence ..... 4.2.26 Mariana Starke : Perfect Decorum at the Scala di Milano .................... 179 .178 .178 .179 4.2.27 William Hazlitt : At the Turin Opera House .. 4.2.28 William Hazlitt : In Praise of Guido Reni . 4.2.29 Richard ...
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... Florence ....... ......... 356 5.2.1 Henry Wotton : ' A Paradise Inhabited with Devils ' . 356 5.2.2 Horace Walpole : Carnival , Society and Duelling in Florence .............. 356 5.2.3 John Boyle , Earl of Corke and Orrery : Horace ...
... Florence ....... ......... 356 5.2.1 Henry Wotton : ' A Paradise Inhabited with Devils ' . 356 5.2.2 Horace Walpole : Carnival , Society and Duelling in Florence .............. 356 5.2.3 John Boyle , Earl of Corke and Orrery : Horace ...
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... Florence , Rome , perhaps Naples , and back , is bound to be different from the Italy of the modern tourist who , guided since the middle of the nineteenth century by Tho- mas Cook's agents and Murray's or Baedeker's handbooks , " does ...
... Florence , Rome , perhaps Naples , and back , is bound to be different from the Italy of the modern tourist who , guided since the middle of the nineteenth century by Tho- mas Cook's agents and Murray's or Baedeker's handbooks , " does ...
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... Florence and Venice , the bilingual anthology of English Writers and Ve- nice edited by Marilla Battilina or Anthony Burgess ' anthology on the Grand Tour . The only anthology comparable with ours in scope , H. Neville Maugham's Book of ...
... Florence and Venice , the bilingual anthology of English Writers and Ve- nice edited by Marilla Battilina or Anthony Burgess ' anthology on the Grand Tour . The only anthology comparable with ours in scope , H. Neville Maugham's Book of ...
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The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated Anthology Manfred Pfister. Stones of Florence ( 1959 ) and Venice Observed ( 1961 ) . The reason for this is not only one of space but of approach and intention as well . If my book were ...
The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated Anthology Manfred Pfister. Stones of Florence ( 1959 ) and Venice Observed ( 1961 ) . The reason for this is not only one of space but of approach and intention as well . If my book were ...
Contents
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Descriptive List of Illustrations | 58 |
The Hazards of Travelling | 118 |
The Perception of Otherness | 142 |
Womens Studies | 194 |
and the Genius of the Roman Catholic Religion | 205 |
Modena and Parma | 228 |
as Cavaliere Servente | 269 |
Domestic Economy | 291 |
Momentary Passions | 293 |
Good Manners | 299 |
Italian Cities | 337 |
Lady Hamiltons Attitudes | 383 |
Off the Beaten Tracks and the Mezzogiorno | 395 |
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Page 14 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.