Letters from several parts of Europe and the East: Difference between revisions

'''''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 1750 [[Epistolary|epistolary reportage]]{{dn|date=July 2021}}(a collection of his letters) written by the British doctor Maihows; the ''Letters'' remained anonymous for over a century until 1881, when the work was published in [[French language|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>

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 otherothers's artistic knowledge, but to enrich the scientific-technological ones.<ref name="grandtour" />

The book had a very troubled publishing story.<ref name="grandtour" /> Published anonymously in 1750, the "Letters" were republished in London in 1760<ref>{{Cite book|last=An English gentleman|url=http://archive.org/details/atourthroughsev00gentgoog|title=A Tour Through Several Parts of Europe and the East: Especially the ...|date=1760|publisher=Printed for W. Bristow|others=New York Public Library|language=English}}</ref> in two volumes with the title ''A tour through several parts of Europe and the East''.<ref>{{Cite book|author=English gentleman|title=A tour through several parts of Europe and the East: especially the following places: Bologne, Paris and its environs, Nemours and Lyons ... In a series of letters from an English gentleman of distinguished abilities: containing the writer's observations on the productions of nature, the monuments of art, and the manners of the inhabitants ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2eYNAAAAYAAJ|year=1760|editor=Printed for W. Bristow}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Maihows|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/tour-through-several-parts-of-europe-and-the-east-especially-the-following-places-bologne-paris-and-its-environs-nemours-and-lyons-containing-the-writers-observations-on-the-productions-of-nature-the-monuments-of-art-and-the-manners-of-the-inhabitants-in-2-volumes-1/oclc/888832925&referer=brief_results|title=A tour through several parts of Europe and the East: especially the following places: Bologne, Paris and its environs, Nemours and Lyons ... ; containing the writer's observations on the productions of nature, the monuments of art and the manners of the inhabitants ; in 2 volumes. 1 1|date=1760|publisher=Bristow|location=London|language=English|oclc=888832925}}</ref> They were translated into French and published in four volumes in 1763 under the title ''Voyage en France, en Italie et aux isles de l'archipel'',<ref name="MaihowsPuisieux1763">{{Cite book|last=Maihows|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=24BYAAAAcAAJ|title=Voyage en France, en Italie et aux isles de l'Archipel, ou Lettres écrites de plusieurs endroits de l'Europe et du Levant en 1750 [etc.]: avec des observations de l'Auteur sur les diverses productions de la nature & de l'Art|date=1763|publisher=Charpentier|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Libri di viaggio — Grand Tour|url=https://grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/indici/libri-di-viaggio/base_view?b_start:int=160&-C=|access-date=2021-03-29|website=grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it}}</ref> by Philippe-Florent Puisieux.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YoFgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA270|title=PI - RZ|date=1804|language=fr|last1=Chaudon |first1=Louis Mayeul }}</ref> They were published again in French in 1783.<ref name="Essarts1801">{{Cite book|last=Essarts|first=Nicolas Le Moyne connu sous le nom de Des|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V5MAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA279|title=Les siecles litteraires de la France, ou nouveau dictionnaire, historique ... de tous les ecrivains francais ... jusqu'a la fin du 18e siecle|date=1801|publisher=Desessarts|language=fr}}</ref> The 1881 French edition as a summary preparation in mind of Hippolyte Bonnardot<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gallica|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&query=(gallica%20all%20%22Voyage%20en%20France,%20en%20Italie%20et%20aux%20isles%20de%20l%27archipel%22)%20and%20dc.creator%20all%20%22maihows,%20dr%22|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-06|website=gallica.bnf.fr}}</ref> is the first to bear the name of the author, the dr. Maihows.

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 particularyparticularly relevant for scientific reasons.<ref name="grandtour" />

== Further readingsreading ==