Travels in Italy, between the Years 1792 and 1798, Containing a View of the Late Revolutions in that Country
Also a Supplement, Comprising Instructions for Travelling in France

A classic guide for the Georgian tourist visiting Italy by one of the most highly-regarded nineteenth-century travel writers.

Mariana Starke (Author)

9781108018937, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 September 2010

408 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

Mariana Starke (c.1762–1838) published this work in 1802, launching her career as a travel writer. The work, consisting of twenty-five letters spread over two volumes, describes the political situation in Italy after the first Napoleonic campaigns and offers practical guidance for tourists visiting Italy's cultural sites. Volume 1 contains sixteen letters: the first seven describe Starke's experience of the Napoleonic conquest and the following nine describe the architecture, paintings and sculptures of Pisa, Florence, Siena, Rome, Naples, Bologna and Venice. The work quickly became popular as it took into account the increasing trend for less affluent families to travel abroad. Starke offers a wealth of advice on affordable food, accommodation, transport and entertainment; her famous rating system, employing exclamation marks to signify the quality of a cultural site, was the precursor of the modern-day system of star-ratings. This is a classic of Georgian travel writing.

Introduction
1. Journey from Nice to Turin over the Maritime-Alps
2. Journey from Geneva to Nice
3. Republican principles gradually disseminated throughout Tuscany
4. Massena makes himself Master of Saorgio
5. Wurmser gains considerable advantages, but is at length defeated by Buonaparte
6. Transactions in the Roman State
7. Apprehensions entertained by the Court of Naples for the safety of Vienna
8. Genoa
9. Voyage from Genoa to Leghorn
10. Pisa
11. Antiquities
12. Excursion to Lucca
13. Florence
14. Festa of S. Giovanni
15. Description of Siena
16. Rome.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]