Books

Welcome to the beta version of Shelfari’s new Book Detail pages!

These pages are editable by the community, so please contribute! Click here to learn more about this feature. We’d love to hear your feedback.

see page history

Description

For members of the social elite in eighteenth-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important symbol of social status. Italy, and especially Rome-a fashionable, exciting, and comfortable city-became the focus of such early... read more

Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis

Write a ridiculously simplified synopsis.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Jeremy Black (Author)

Popular Tags

  1. italy
  2. nonfiction
  3. the grand tour 
 

Books with Additional Background Information

List the books that contain additional information about this book.

Books That Influenced This Book

List the books that influenced this book.


If you have any suggestions for how we can improve this page or if there are sections that you would like us to add, please let us know.

Advertisement