Italy
Remarks Made in Several Visits, from the Year 1816 to 1854

Hobhouse recounts his travels through Italy between 1816 and 1854, describing the people, places and politics he encountered.

John Cam Hobhouse (Author)

9781108003827, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

388 pages
21.6 x 2.2 x 14 cm, 0.49 kg

John Cam Hobhouse's 1859 publication provides a detailed account of his travels around Italy between 1816 and 1854. The two volumes contain informative descriptions of the places, people and politics of nineteenth-century Italy, and the reader will gain fascinating insights into the close relationship between Hobhouse and Lord Byron. Providing a mix of entertaining anecdotes and historical information, the volumes explore 'a country now made accessible by a few hours journey and familiar to us by every mode of illustration', acquainting the Victorian traveller (and now the modern reader) with the Italy 'of times long past'. Volume 2 focuses mainly on the churches, monuments, temples and ruins of Ancient Rome.

12. The Capitol
13. Capitoline ascents
14. St Martina
15. The Arco de' Pantani
16. The Palatine and arch of Constantine
17. The Mamertine and Tullian prisons
18. The castle of Sant' Angelo
19. The pyramid of Cestius
20. Nemi
21
Rienzi
Appendix.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]