The grand tour and the great rebellion
Richard Lassels and the "Voyage of Italy" in the seventeenth century
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Contributions
- Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668 - Contributor
Publication
1985 - Slatkine, Geneve, Switzerland
Language
English
Word Count
119,750 words, Guess
Page Count
479 pages
Identifiers
- Library of Congress Control Number86148896
- OCLC Control Number14099762
- Open LibraryOL43782921M
Classifications
- LCCDG424.L353 C44 1985
Description
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...
First Sentence
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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