Glimpses of Italian Society in the Eighteenth Century, From the Journey of Mrs. Piozzi: With an Introduction by the Countess Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The bulk of the writers of books of travel in the Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries approached us less nearly in feeling than did the Roman youths of an earlier age, who carried their warmest enthusiasm to the land where they could tread on history. Italy, the Greece of the modern world, found them critical and left them cold. Rabelais, for instance, could not for the life of him see what there was to admire in Florence. Had the Elizabethan dramatists depended on such reports alone, it would be difficult to understand how they managed to absorb, as they did, the idea and atmosphere of the South. But England was flooded with Italian.

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