Search Results - "The Grand Tour"

‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century by Piana, Pietro, Watkins, Charles, Balzaretti, Ross

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Byron's "Manfred" and the Greek imaginary by Leman, Lucia

“…It is argued that Byron’s “inner Greek landscape” (a collection of motifs which appear in all of his works from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and which I see epitomized by Manfred) was formed during the initial three months of his Grand Tour. Here, various elements of that “landscape”, both topographical as well as literary and metaphorical, are established. …”
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'Sybaris is the land where it wishes to take us': luxurious insertions in Picturesque gardens by Condello, Annette

“…Towards the end of the eighteenth century, the discovery of Pompeii attracted European aristocrats to include the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Southern Italy) on their Grand Tour itinerary. Similarly, Sybaris, an ancient Greek colonial polis also directed aristocratic attention to the region. …”
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Imaginary homeland: romantic women writers and Italy by Bordoni, Silvia

“…Since the heyday of the Grand Tour, Italy has been approached as an alien and distant country, but also as a liberating and stimulating reality. …”
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