The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance

Edward Chaney

Taylor & Francis, May 1, 2000 - Social Science - 426 pages

The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the decline of the Roman Empire to recent times.
Authors from Chaucer to Erasmus came to mock the custom but even the Reformation did not stop the urge to travel. From the mid-sixteenth century, northern Europeans justified travel to the south in terms of education. The English had previously travelled to Italy to study the classics; now they travelled to learn Italian and study medicine, diplomacy, dancing, riding, fencing, and, eventually, art and architecture. Famous men, and an increasing proportion of women, all contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. Documenting the lives and travels of these personalities, Professor Chaney's remarkable book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisation.

Contents

• Hoby brothers tomb Bisham Church: 7
• ? Henry Fitzalan 12th Earl of Arundel: 8
• Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford 1 1 6 William Lithgow: 13
• Colonel Bullen Reymes: 16
• Capuccini corpses: 21
• George Berkeley 2 3: 22
• Theatre at Taormina: 27
• Temple of Concord: 31
• Early Tudor Tombs and the Rise and Fall: 41
• Quo Vadis? Travel as Education and the Impact: 58
• Thomas Coryate in Venice: 68
• Title page of William Thomass Historie of Italie: 71
• Thomas Howard 14th Earl of Arundel: 84
• Aletheia Countess of Arundel: 85
• British and American: 102
• Alexander Chapman Dr John Bargrave and John Raymond: 104
• Gaeta: 105
• John Milton: 107
• Bullen Reymess Travel Diaries m: 112
• San Matteo Lecce: 124
• The Temples at Paestum: 126
• John Price: 144
• A Survey of the Great Dukes State of Tuscany: 146
• Francis Manners 6th Earl of Rutland: 149
• Documentary Evidence of AngloItalian Cultural: 161
• Sir Henry Wotton: 162
• View of Venice c 1608: 164
• Inigo Jones: 169
• The Church of S Paolo Maggiore: 170
• Sir Tobie Matthew: 174
• George Gage: 175
• The Temple of Castor and Pollux: 180
• S Palladios Temple of Castor and Pollux annotated by Inigo Jones: 181
• The Temple of Athene Syracuse: 184
• Summonte title page with Inigo Joness signature: 185
• Summontes engraving of the Temple of Castor and Pollux: 186
• Stairs of S Paolo Maggiore Naples: 187
• Door to S Paolo Maggiore Naples: 188
• Inigo Joness design for great door of the Banqueting House: 189
• Inigo Jones c 1644: 192
• Art English Catholics: 203
• Selfportrait of Nicholas Lanier: 213
• Sir Balthazar Gerbier 1634: 216
• English Catholic Poets in midSeventeenthCentury: 226
• English Observations: 239
• Plan of Hospital of S Maria Nuova Florence: 247
• Filaretes Ospedale Maggiore in Milan: 250
• A Literary Tradition: 278
• Etching of Vallombrosa: 279
• Conifers at Vallombrosa: 288
• Villa Salviati on the Arno: 289
• Vallombrosa and the Faggio Santo: 296
• The Immaterialist: 314
• Anthony Ashley Cooper 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury: 315
• University of Padua English and Scots visitors book: 323
• George Berkeleys house Middletown Rhode Island: 325
• John Percival 1st Earl of Egmont: 326
• Pyramid of Cestius Rome: 336
• Berkeleys Bermuda plan: 341
• Marcian or Valentinian Barletta: 348
• Signature and drawing by John Talman: 368
• Drawing by Giuseppe Grisoni: 369
• Sir Harold Acton 190494: 377
• Sir Harold Acton and Jessica Chaney: 378
• A Century of British and American Books: 383
• Index: 405

About the author

Professor Chaney gained a first class honours degree in History of Art at Reading University and completed an MPhil and PhD at the Warburg Institute, University of London.

From 1978/1985 he lived in Florence where he was ricercatore at the European University Institute, an Associate of Harvard University's Villa I Tatti, and taught at the University of Pisa. From 1985/90 he was the Shuffrey Research Fellow in Architectural History at Lincoln College, Oxford. He subsequently worked for English Heritage and lectured in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance
• Author: Edward Chaney
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2000
• ISBN: 0714644749, 9780714644745
• Length: 426 pages
• Subjects: History / General; Social Science / Social Work