The Paradise of Travellers: The Italian Influence on Englishmen in the Seventeenth CenturyIndiana University Press, 1964 - 240 pages |
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Page 180
... Sandys now quotes rather extensively from Virgil , including the passage from the fourth Eclogue in which is foretold the birth of the Child who should bring in a golden age . It should be noted at this point that Virgil owned a villa ...
... Sandys now quotes rather extensively from Virgil , including the passage from the fourth Eclogue in which is foretold the birth of the Child who should bring in a golden age . It should be noted at this point that Virgil owned a villa ...
Page 181
... Sandys and his party crossed the bay to Pozzuoli and then rowed back to Naples round the headland of Posilipo . On leaving Naples he was advised not to travel overland because of the unhealthy summer , ' the dog - starre then raging ...
... Sandys and his party crossed the bay to Pozzuoli and then rowed back to Naples round the headland of Posilipo . On leaving Naples he was advised not to travel overland because of the unhealthy summer , ' the dog - starre then raging ...
Page 183
... Sandys concludes his book ; adding only that he travelled by way of Siena , Florence and Bologna to Ferrara , where he embarked on the Po , ' and so returned into Venice ' . Sandys ' book differs from Fynes Moryson's both in what it ...
... Sandys concludes his book ; adding only that he travelled by way of Siena , Florence and Bologna to Ferrara , where he embarked on the Po , ' and so returned into Venice ' . Sandys ' book differs from Fynes Moryson's both in what it ...
Contents
ITALY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 19 |
Politics and War | 21 |
Envoys and Diplomatists | 42 |
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