Author: Gilbert BurnetPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Some Letters, Containing an Account of what Seem'd Most Remarkable in Travelling Thro' Switserland, Italy, Some Parts of Germany, Etc. in the Years 1685. and 1686
Author: Gilbert BurnetSome Letters
Author: Gilbert BurnetPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Some Letters. Containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy,&c. Written by G. Burnet, D.D. to T. H. R. B. i.e. the Honourable Robert Boyle. To which is annexed his Answer to Mr. Varillas
Author: Gilbert BurnetCities and the Grand Tour
Author: Rosemary SweetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139576895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
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 Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what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.
Some Letters, Containing an Account of what Seemed Most Remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, ...
Author: Gilbert BurnetCatalogue of the Wren Library of Lincoln Cathedral
Author: Clive HurstPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521234808
Category : Cathedral libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Venice & the Grand Tour
Author: Bruce RedfordPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300069112
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
According to Bruce Redford, the Tour offered a heady combination of aesthetic, social political, and sexual experience, and it provided its alumni with a life-long source of cultural and political authority. Yet from the beginning the Tour was also viewed with deep suspicion: it was feared that the very experiences that completed the British gentleman might well undo him.
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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Some Letters Containing an Account of what Seemed Most Remarkable in Switzerland. Italy, Etc. 1686
Author: Gilbert Burnet (vescovo di Salisbury)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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