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

By Edward Chaney

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714644749
• ISBN13: 9780714644745
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Chaney is perhaps the pre-eminent scholar of the cultural influences and relationships between England and Italy in the Early Modern period. This book is more a series of studies than a coherent survey, but is based on expert research not available in other works. Chaney explores the role politics, students, travelers and exiles played in the development of the Grand Tour of Europe, one of 18th-century England's most prominent educational institutions. Though a background in Renaissance England and Italy would be helpful, it is rewarding reading for anyone interested in tourist travel, the Grand Tour, the modern Anglo-American love of Italy, and even the semester abroad, all of which are outgrowths of the developments that Chaney explores.