Edward Chaney: 3 books
Florence
A Traveller's Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Of all Italian cities, Florence has always had the strongest English accent: the Goncourt brothers in 1855 called it 'ville tout anglaise'. Though that accent is diminished now, Florence remains for the English-speaking traveller what it always has been - one of the best loved, and most visited, of...
The Jacobean Grand Tour
Early Stuart Travellers in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Although the eighteenth century is traditionally seen as the age of the Grand Tour, it was in fact the continental travel of Jacobean noblemen which really constituted the beginning of this institutionalized phenomenon. As soon as James VI of Scotland united his crown with England's as James I, he...
The Evolution of the Grand Tour
Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete...