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Blanched Bones or Human Life?
Snippets 211. When visiting a country such as Italy, with so much to take in of historical interest, it is perhaps all too easy to only have eyes for the ancient ruins and ignore everything else. The following inspirational quote is … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Autobiographies, Books, History, Inspiration, Memoirs, Snippets, Travel
Tagged Art, Baedeker, Italy, Lady Harriet Jephson, Ruskin
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Watch out for Lizards!
Snippets 192. In 1900 American writer Laura G Collins published a collection of letters from her various travels around Europe, titled By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel. Although many of them are relatively dry descriptions of tourist destinations, at times she … Continue reading
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Tagged Italy, Laura G Collins, Rome, Sant'Onofrio
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A Miserable Winter in Rome
Snippets 188. In 1817 Henry Matthews went on a “tour in pursuit of health”, and wrote about his experiences in Diary of an Invalid, in 1820. His first port of call was Lisbon, and from there he travelled to Italy. … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Matthews, Italy, Rome
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The Spark of Inspiration
Snippets 181. In 1817 Henry Matthews went on a “tour in pursuit of health”, and wrote about his experiences in Diary of an Invalid, in 1820. In Florence he visited the Palazzo Pitti, taking a keen interest in the art, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Henry Matthews, Italy, Palazzo Pitti
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Quarantined in the Port
Snippets 160. In 1817 Henry Matthews went on a “tour in pursuit of health”, and wrote about his experiences in Diary of an Invalid, in 1820. His first port of call was Lisbon, and from there he travelled to Italy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, Henry Matthews, Italy, Leghorn, Livorno
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Stuck in Customs (in 1854)
Snippets 157. When the American Rev. George Foxcroft Haskins visited Italy in 1854, as part of his tour of Europe, he was in reality visiting a collection of independent states. This was just a few years before the reunification of Italy … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancona, Bureaucracy, George Foxcroft Haskins, Italy, Trieste
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A Meeting on a Volcano
Snippets 155. In 1854 the American Rev. George Foxcroft Haskins went on a tour of Europe, spending much of his time in Italy, due principally to his interest in the Catholic faith in the country. After visiting Rome, Florence and Naples, … Continue reading
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Tagged Italy, Vesuvius
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Dreams of Childhood
Quick Quotes 15. The following is taken from Thomas Rees’s Sixty Days in Europe and What We Saw There (1908): In childhood we live in the fancy of anticipation and we long for the time to come when we will … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood, Italy, Naples, Thomas Rees
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A Dream Come True
Creepy History 25. For the last couple of “Creepy History” articles we have been looking at the supernatural experiences of Bayard Taylor. They are merely a footnote in the life of this prolific traveller and adventurer, collected together in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayard Taylor, Clairvoyance, Florence, Hiram Powers, Italy
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Journals 10.4 – Loiterings in Europe by John Corson (Part 4)
This is the fourth part of my article on Corson’s journal. For the previous parts please see the entries posted on 4th, 11th and 18th January 2016. Corson was lucky enough to be in Rome for the inauguration of a … Continue reading
Windows into History 