The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance / Edition 1

by Edward Chaney

Overview

This book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisation, The Grand Tour.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714645773
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/1998
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Chaney

Table of Contents

1. British and American travellers in Sicily from the 8th to the 20th century 2. Early Tudor tombs and the rise and fall of Anglo-Italian relations 3. Quo Vadis? Travel as education and the impact of Italy in the 16th century 4. The Grand Tour and beyond - British and American travellers in southern Italy, 1545-1960 5. Robert Dallington's Survey of Tuscany, 1605 - a British view of Medicean Florence 6. Documentary evidence of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the 16th and 17 centuries 7. Inigo Jones in Naples 8. Pilgrims to pictures - art, English Catholics and the evolution of the Grand Tour 9. Notes towards a bibliography of Sir Balthazar Gerbier 10. English Catholic poets in mid-17th century Rome 11. Philanthropy in Italy - English observations on Italian hospitals, 1545-1789 12. Milton's visit to Vallombrosa - a literary tradition 13. George Berkeley's Grand Tours - the immaterialist as connoisseur of art and architecture 14. Epilogue - Sir Harold Acton, 1904-94.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a brilliant, original and refreshing account, teeming with new and fascinating material." - J. B. Trapp, Professor Emeritus, History of the Classical Tradition, University of London

"Original and scholarly essays on a fascinating subject ... a remarkable book." - Lord Dacre of Glanton (Hugh Trevor-Roper)

"...I fell for its its irresistible enthusiasm. Chaney has a profound scholarly knowledge of Anglo-Italian historical relationships, but he is also a writer full of surprise and discursive curiosity ... a most beguiling delight." - Jan Morris' "Book of the Year" in the Independent

"Edward Chaney's fascinating book illuminates the magnetic attractions of Italy ... a work of meticulous scholarship about the origin and evolution of the Grand Tour." - John Mortimer, The Sunday Times

"[written with] verve and precision and tremendous authority ... this book, richly illustrated and handsomely produced, will become an indespensable work for cultural historians, Italophiles and all latter-day Grand Tourists." - Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

"this collection of 14 brilliant essays provides us with much new material and many new insights." - David Watkin, Country Life

"Chaney is a scholarly and learned writer and he sheds light on a wide range of topics ... A wealth of humane learning ... characterises this attractive volume." - Sir Keith Thomas, Apollo: International Magazine of the Arts

"This is a bran-tub of Anglo-Italian delights, sustained by seriousness and enthusiasm in equal measure." - Jonathan Keates, Literary Review

"To those who know, even in part, their sources in the continuing unravelling of the Grand Tour, this book is an indispensable, a quite golden, addition...Professor Chaney holds us all in his debt in this collection of occasional essays touching on subjects and conections that, quite simply, have not occurred to others less erudite than himself ... the style is of a plein air ease such that one might be listening to a soliloquy in the gardens of Villa Lante ... taken as a whole it could not be bettered." - Patrick Reyntiens, The Tablet

From the Publisher

Unlike other studies of the Grand Tour, this book deals not so much with the fully-fledged 18th-century phenomenon, but rather with the 16th and 17th centuries and the way in which the English became conscious of the Italian Renaissance and thereby discovered classical antiquity itself. Revised essays document the lives and travels of the personalities who contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. An epilogue pays tribute to Sir Harold Acton (1904-1994). Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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