Italianizzati
Hugh Honour, 13 November 1997
A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800
compiled by John Ingamells.
Yale, 1070 pp., £50, May 1997,0 300 07165 5 Show More
compiled by John Ingamells.
Yale, 1070 pp., £50, May 1997,
“... who went to see Vesuvius, agronomists such as Arthur Young, and the philanthropist John Howard, who inspected prisons and hospitals. In this many-headed crowd of travellers it was, however, the young sprigs of the nobility and landed gentry, or milordi, who were conspicuous in their own time and have remained so in the historical record. Many sat ... ”