The grand tour and the Great Rebellion
Richard Lassels and "The Voyage of Italy" in the seventeenth century
by Edward Chaney
An account of the effect of Civil War on travel and the evolution of the Grand Tour, featuring new discoveries on Milton, Inigo Jones, the collector Earl of Arundel, Hobbes, Nicholas Lanier, George Gage, Tobie Matthew and many others...
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Civilization, Modern, Description and travel, Modern Civilization, Travel, Early works to 1800People
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The grand tour and the great rebellion: Richard Lassels and the "Voyage of Italy" in the seventeenth century
1985, Slatkine, Centro interuniversitario di ricerche sul "Viaggio in Italia"
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"If one includes Rome and Naples as essential ingredients in a Grand Tour itinerary, as by eighteenth-century definitions one clearly should, then it was only after 1630, following the peace treaties with France and Spain that the British version of the Gradn Tour can be said to have taken shape."
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 434-456.
Contains: Richard Lassel's Description of Italy (1654).
Includes index.
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"If one includes Rome and Naples as essential ingredients in a Grand Tour itinerary, as by eighteenth-century definitions one clearly should, then it was only after 1630, following the peace treaties with France and Spain that the British version of the Gradn Tour can be said to have taken shape."
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