Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany

Piozzi, Hester Lynch

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“…I should think not.' 24 According to Thomas Watkins, this problem spread across the whole of Italy. He writes of his visit in 1787 to the convent of San Marco in Florence in order to buy perfume produced by the Dominican friars:…”

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Making Sense of Rome

Wrigley¹

2012

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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This text explores how encounters with Rome relied on different senses, primarily smell and touch. Grand Tour studies usually prioritise literary and scholarly matters, and Rome as a place where sight takes precedence. Interactions based on smell and touch are in fact highly charged avenues for defining and expressing aspects of the city's experience (usually left out of modern accounts of earlier expectations of Rome), and what it amounted to once confronted as a physical site. Topics include: responses to St Peter's huge scale; perfume and odour; and walking in and touching Rome.Je recherchai pourtant et amploiai tous mes cinq sans de nature pour obtenir le titre de citoyen romain, ne fut-ce que pour l'antien honur et religieuse mémoire de son autorité. 1

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Section: Odious Odoursmentioning

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Making Sense of Rome

Wrigley¹

2012

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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“…For Hester Piozzi the ravaged Coliseum was 'possibly more beautiful than when it was quite whole; there is enough left now for Truth to repose upon, and a perch for Fancy beside, to fly out from, and fetch in more'. 58 Others took the sentimental approach: Yorick never got as far as Italy in Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768), but the Irish clergyman Martin Sherlock did; his account of Rome hinged on the trauma of shutting his dog in a cupboard and forgetting it on his departure to Naples. 59 John Owen, meanwhile, whose Travels into Different Parts of Europe (1796) was aimed specifically at the 'domestic traveller', sought simply to illustrate the varieties of human nature that he encountered on his tour.…”

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The Changing View of Rome in the Long Eighteenth Century

Sweet

2010

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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This article surveys the responses of British travellers to Rome in the long eighteenth century, as expressed in topographical literature, correspondence and diaries, and considers how these were shaped by changing domestic preoccupations. British depictions of the city in its ancient and modern state are compared with the accounts that they would have encountered in the topographical literature and prints available in Rome and in the information offered to them by the local ciceroni. This comparison highlights revealing differences between the Rome that the Romans sought to project and the one the British wished to see.One of the characteristic features of the Grand Tour, and one that gives it some validity as a heuristic concept, is the remarkable degree of homogeneity in the experiences of travellers to Italy. The British travelled together in groups, following a fairly standard itinerary; they sought out the same sights and monuments; and they read the same guidebooks in preparation: a volume such as Joseph Addison's Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705) reached its twentieth edition in 1810. Yet the way in which the British perceived and responded to the cities through which they passed, or understood and interpreted the art, antiquities or buildings that they saw, underwent subtle but distinct modifications over the course of the long eighteenth century. The topographical literature produced at the time -the guides, tours and antiquarian descriptions, the journals and diaries of travellers and their letters home -reveals how the representation of Rome and its monuments evolved over the course of the eighteenth century, mirroring changes in sensibility and intellectual concerns at home. The most important of these was, perhaps, the shift in the balance of the relationship between the emergent sense of British national identity and the ideal of ancient Rome in British culture. 1 It is important to recognise, however, that the accounts of Rome that survive in these sources also drew heavily on material derived from Italian guidebooks and antiquarian publications, or from the information conveyed by the Italian ciceroni who guided British tourists around Rome. 2 The comparison offered here between British

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Bluestockings and Travel Accounts

Voloshkova

2021

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This Element proposes to relate the eighteenth-century world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the bluestockings between 1760 and 1799. The study shows how the bluestockings acquired knowledge of the world through reading, discussing, writing and collecting travel accounts. It explores the 'social life' of manuscript and printed travel texts in the circle, their popularity and impact on the bluestockings. This Element builds upon the body of evidence provided by their published and unpublished diaries, correspondence and private library catalogues.

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Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany

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