Places In Italy A Private Grand Tour 3rd Edition

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781912242221

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Places in Italy: A private grand tour (3rd edition) by Francis Russell Pdf

A new and 50% enlarged, entertaining, but fundamentally serious selection of the most rewarding places to visit the most visited and beloved country in the world. Places described have gone from 101 to 150 in this edition. Sicily, Calabria and Apulia are the subjects of greater focus. Towns (additions include Bergamo, Pesaro, Cremona and Todi), villages, museums and individual monuments are discussed, characterised and described. A guide book in its own right, but above all a thoughtful, opinionated and supremely well-informed guide, supplement and corrective to conventional guides. Note this is not a guide to hotels, restaurants and other amenities.

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Wilmington Square Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912242214

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Places in Italy by Francis Russell Pdf

This personal and wonderfully well-informed selection of the most rewarding towns, cities, villages and individual monuments in Italy is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveller. As well as comprehensively covering the finest sights in the major tourist centres of Rome, Florence, Venice and elsewhere, Russell discusses and describes the neglected or little known masterpieces that are still to be found the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula. A richly textured portrait of a country where the history and patterns of civilization lie more thickly than anywhere else on earth.

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781908524324

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101 Places in Italy: A Private Grand Tour by Francis Russell Pdf

A selection of the most remarkable places, sites, sights in Italy by a veteran visitor, distinguished scholar and intrepid traveler.

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Allemandi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8842215384

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52 Italian Places by Francis Russell Pdf

By offering 52 places that shouldn't be missed on a trip to Italy, this book gives travelers a thread to follow, one that will lead them to places the author likes best, from the thousands of possibilities in Venice to the small hill town that boasts of a single masterpiece.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0300099770

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Italy and the Grand Tour by Jeremy Black Pdf

For members of the social elite in 18th-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important symbol of social status. Italy, and especially Rome - a fashionable, exciting, and comfortable city - became the focus of such early tourists' interest. In this book, historian Jeremy Black recreates the actual tourist experiences of those who travelled to Italy on a Grand Tour. Relying on the private diaries and personal letters of travellers, rather than on the self-conscious accounts of literary travellers who wrote for wider audiences, the book presents an authentic picture of how British tourists experienced Italy, its landscapes, women, food, music, Catholicism, and more. illustrations, the book highlights the discrepancy between the idealised view of the Grand Tour and its reality: what people were meant to do was not necessarily what they did, what the guide books described as splendid was not always so perceived. Black quotes British visitors as they reflect on their trips, and he discusses what their Italian experiences meant to them. And he considers the intriguing effects of tourism on British culture during this most exciting of centuries.

Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139576895

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Cities and the Grand Tour by Rosemary Sweet Pdf

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 unprecedented urbanisation at home. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what the different meanings and imaginative associations attached to these cities were; and how the contrasting descriptions of each of these cities reflected the travellers' own attitudes to urbanism. More broadly, the book explores the construction and performance of personal, gender and national identities, and the shift in cultural values away from neo-classicism towards medievalism and the gothic, which is central to our understanding of eighteenth-century culture and the transition to modernity.

Author : Stephanie Malia Hom
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442648722

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The Beautiful Country by Stephanie Malia Hom Pdf

Every year, Italy swells with millions of tourists who infuse the economy with billions of dollars and almost outnumber Italians themselves. In fact, Italy has been a model tourist destination for longer than it has been a modern state.The Beautiful Country explores the enduring popularity of “destination Italy,” and its role in the development of the global mass tourism industry. Stephanie Malia Hom tracks the evolution of this particular touristic imaginary through texts, practices, and spaces, beginning with the guidebooks that frame Italy as an idealized land of leisure and finishing with destination Italy's replication around the world. Today, more tourists encounter Italy through places like Las Vegas's The Venetian Hotel and Casino or Dubai's Mercato shopping mall than experience the country in Italy itself. Using an interdisciplinary methodology that includes archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, literary criticism, and spatial analysis,The Beautiful Country reveals destination Italy's paramount role in the creation of modern mass tourism.

Author : Robert S. Kane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Italy
ISBN : LCCN:76001624

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Italy A to Z : a Grand Tour of the Classic Cities by Robert S. Kane Pdf

Author : Tobias Smollett
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781770482869

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Travels through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett Pdf

Tobias Smollett travelled through Europe with his wife in 1763-65 in a journey designed to recover his mental and physical health after the death of their daughter. The resulting travel narrative provoked controversy and anger in the eighteenth century, when it was often negatively compared to Laurence Sterne’s fictional European travels in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Unlike Sterne’s sensitive hero, Smollett is argumentative, acerbic, and often contemptuous of local customs. In addition to a critical introduction, this edition provides extensive annotation and appendices with material on Smollett’s correspondence, the book’s reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, related travel writing, and Smollett’s infamous satirization as “Smelfungus” in Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey.

Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Eleonore Kofman,Catherine Kevin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135890070

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Branding Cities by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Eleonore Kofman,Catherine Kevin Pdf

Cultural analysts, social scientists, and media scholars explore the ways in which cities generate competing visions of their use and their future, thereby branding their image for international consumption.

Author : Fred Inglis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134786480

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The Delicious History of the Holiday by Fred Inglis Pdf

Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, fed on imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want from our holidays tells a lot about who we are and what we wish we were. In this charming account, Fred Inglis traces the rise of the holiday from its early roots in the Grand Tour, through the coming of Thomas Cook and his Blackpool packages, to sex tourism and the hippie trail to Kathmandu. He celebrates the bodily pleasures of generations of tourists - from Edwardian banquets in Paris to fish and chips on the beach, from the Bright Young Things on the Riviera to the chosen hardships of the sea, the desert wastes and the mountain tops. He considers the ideals and the spiritual aspirations which are part of what we look for in a holiday, but he also warns of a darker current - how we have increasingly destroyed what we take most pleasure in and how the dealings between those who have much and those who have little, can seldom, however good our intentions, avoid the taint of exploitation.

Author : Black Jeremy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0333997387

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Italy and the Grand Tour by Black Jeremy Pdf

Author : John Booker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000451092

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Forty Days by John Booker Pdf

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred and hostility through to resignation and even contentment. Drawing on the diaries and journals of some 300 men and women of many nationalities over more than two centuries, the author describes the inadequate accommodation, poor food and crushing boredom experienced by detainees. The book also draws attention to comradeship, sickness, and death in detention, as well as Casanova’s unique ability to do what he did best even in the lazaretto of Ancona. Other well-known detainees included Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott. Lavishly illustrated, the work includes a gazetteer of 49 lazarettos in Europe and Asia Minor, with inmates’ comments on each. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3126 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022597087

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1666 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211312041

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf