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Article: A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy: 1701-1800.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- August 1, 1997
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The British in Italy
Sir Brinsley Ford, long the secretary of the Society of Dilettanti in England, amassed an archive of information about more than six thousand British and Irish travelers to Italy during the eighteenth century. In 1988 he gave the material to the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800 is the long-awaited result.
So many Britons made the grand tour of Italy during the eighteenth century that a number of them became residents so as to guide the others to the sights and the shops. Indeed, some of these guides were the shops. James Byres ...