Travels in Italy, between the Years 1792 and 1798, Containing a View of the Late Revolutions in that Country 2 Volume Set
Travels in Italy, between the Years 1792 and 1798, Containing a View of the Late Revolutions in that Country 2 Volume Set
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USDMariana Starke (c.1762–1838) published this work in 1802, launching her career as a travel writer. The work, consisting of twenty-five letters spread over two volumes, describes the political situation in Italy after the first Napoleonic campaigns and offers practical guidance for tourists visiting Italy. Volume 1 explains the Napoleonic conquest and the cultural attractions of Pisa, Florence, Siena, Rome, Naples, Bologna and Venice, while Volume 2 focuses on the cities of Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Florence, Bologna, and Venice. The work quickly became popular as it took into account the increasing trend for less affluent families to travel abroad. Starke offers a wealth of advice on affordable food, accommodation, transport and entertainment; her famous rating system, employing exclamation marks to signify the quality of a cultural site, was the precursor of the modern-day system of star-ratings. This is a classic of Georgian travel writing.
Product details
September 2010Multiple copy pack
9781108018951
875 pages
330 × 252 × 70 mm
1.45kg
1 map
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Introduction
- 1. Journey from Nice to Turin over the Maritime-Alps
- 2. Journey from Geneva to Nice
- 3. Republican principles gradually disseminated throughout Tuscany
- 4. Massena makes himself Master of Saorgio
- 5. Wurmser gains considerable advantages, but is at length defeated by Buonaparte
- 6. Transactions in the Roman State
- 7. Apprehensions entertained by the Court of Naples for the safety of Vienna
- 8. Genoa
- 9. Voyage from Genoa to Leghorn
- 10. Pisa
- 11. Antiquities
- 12. Excursion to Lucca
- 13. Florence
- 14. Festa of S. Giovanni
- 15. Description of Siena
- 16. Rome. Volume 2:
- 17. Piazza di S. Pietro
- 18. Excursion to Tivoli
- 19. Account of the country between Rome and Naples
- 20. Naples
- 21. Environs of Naples
- 22. Excursion to Baia
- 23. Journey from Rome through Perugia to Florence
- 24. Journey from Florence to Dresden
- 25. Dresden
- Appendix
- Notes
- Supplement to the Appendix.
