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.
Edward Chaney
"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
‘Edward Chaney’s fascinating book illuminates the magnetic
attractions of Italy...’ - The Sunday Times
‘In his important new book, The Evolution of the Grand Tour, Edward
Chaney provides a series of scholarly essays about the effect of
travel to Italy on English culture’ - Catholic Herald
‘... irresistible enthusiasm... I found this compilation of
writings a most beguiling delight.’ - The Independent
‘This collection is a treasure house of insights into one of the
most fascinating cultural relationships in recent history.’ -
Contemporary Review‘Chaney is a scholarly and learned writer; and
sheds light on a wide range of topics... [there is a] wealth of
humane learning which characterises this attractive volume.’ -
Apollo Magazine
‘Suffice it to say that as an anthology they provide an
authoritative, lively and multi-faceted account of Anglo-Italian
relations in the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth
century.’ - Burlington Magazine
‘This attractive book is written with a great verve, humour,
lightness of touch, and an eye for the curious detail… based on
extraordinarily large and diverse primary material, visual,
manuscript, and printed, all brilliantly controlled and exploited
with a close attention to chronology.’ - Sixteenth Century
Journal
‘Chaney has written a book that is admirable for its elegance and
learning, which explores the historic connections between England
and Italy.’ - The Birmingham Post
‘Professor Chaney...is an immensely learned scholar... (The book)
is full of enthusiasm.’ – Observer
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