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'''''Letters from several parts of Europe and the East''''' (full title ''Letters from several parts of Europe and the East. Written in the Years 1750, ... in there are contained the Writer' s Observation on the Productions of Nature, the Monuments of Art, and the Manners of the Inhabitants'') is a [[Epistolary|Epistolary reportage]] [[Travel literature|(Travel literature]]) of the 1750 written by the British doctor Maihows; the ''Letters'' remain anonymous for over a century unitl 1881 when the work was published in [[French]].<ref name="grandtour">{{Cite web|title=Biografia — Grand Tour|url=https://grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/indici/viaggiatori/maihows/biografia|access-date=2021-03-23|website=grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it}}</ref>▼
| author = Dr. Maihows
| language = English
| country = France
| genre = travel literature
| published = 1750
| publisher = Charpentier
}}
▲'''''Letters from several parts of Europe and the East''''' (full title ''Letters from several parts of Europe and the East. Written in the Years 1750, ... in there are contained the Writer' s Observation on the Productions of Nature, the Monuments of Art, and the Manners of the Inhabitants'') is a
The travel takes place for the most part in Italy. Unlike most travelers who did the [[Grand Tour]], Maihows' intent was not to expand his own and other's artistic knowledge, but to enrich the scientific-technological ones.<ref name="grandtour" />▼
▲The travel takes place for the most part in Italy. Unlike most travelers who did the [[Grand Tour]], Maihows' intent was not to expand his own and
''Letters from several parts of Europe'' is one of the accounts that helped to outline the image of Italy at that time and of [[Tuscany]] in particular.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gli indici — Grand Tour|url=https://grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/indici|access-date=2021-03-29|website=grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it}}</ref>
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Most of the report focused on the trip to Italy. Dr. Maihows visits numerous cities including [[Genova]], [[Milan]], [[Venice]], [[Brescia]], [[Verona]], [[Vicenza]], [[Padua]], [[Ferrara]], [[Ravenna]], [[Rimini]], [[Pesaro]], [[Recanati]], [[Spoleto]], [[Terni]], [[Narni]], [[Rome]], going to the South to [[Naples]] and [[Ercolano]]; returning to the North, the traveler went to [[Siena]], [[Livorno]], [[Pisa]], [[Florence]] and [[Bologna]]; the city of Emilia is particularly relevant for scientific reasons.<ref name="grandtour" />
== References ==
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