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 reportage (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.[1]
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.[1]
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.[2]
Publishing story
The work had a very troubled publishing story.[1] Published anonymously in 1750, the "letters" were published in London in 1760[3] in two volumes with the title A tour through several parts of Europe and the East.[4][5] 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,[6][7] da Philippe-Florent Puisieux.[8] They were published again in French in 1783.[9] The French edition of 1881 as a summary preparation in mind of Hippolyte Bonnardot[10] - is the first to bear the name of the author, the dr. Maihows.
Story
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 go to Siena, Livorno, Pisa, Florence and Bologna; the Emilian city is particulary relevant for scientific reasons.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Biografia — Grand Tour". grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
- ^ http://grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/indici
- ^ https://archive.org/details/atourthroughsev00gentgoog
- ^ English gentleman (1760). Printed for W. Bristow (ed.). 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 ...
- ^ 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
- ^ Maihows (1763). 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 (in French). Charpentier.
- ^ http://grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/indici/libri-di-viaggio/base_view?b_start:int=160&-C=
- ^ PI - RZ (in French). 1804.
- ^ Essarts, Nicolas Le Moyne connu sous le nom de Des (1801). Les siecles litteraires de la France, ou nouveau dictionnaire, historique ... de tous les ecrivains francais ... jusqu'a la fin du 18e siecle (in French). Desessarts.
- ^ http://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22Voyage%20en%20France%2C%20en%20Italie%20et%20aux%20isles%20de%20l%27archipel%22%29%20and%20dc.creator%20all%20%22maihows%2C%20dr%22#resultat-id-1
Further readings
- Maihows (20 aprile 2016). chez Charpentier, libraire, Quai des Augustins, a l'entree de la rue du Hurepoix, a S. Crysostome (ed.). Letters from several parts of Europe and the East. 1. Vol. 1. A Paris.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - Maihows (20 aprile 2016). chez Charpentier, libraire, Quai des Augustins, a l'entree de la rue du Hurepoix, a S. Crysostome (ed.). Letters from several parts of Europe and the East. 2. Vol. 2. A Paris.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - Maihows (20 aprile 2016). chez Charpentier, libraire, Quai des Augustins, a l'entree de la rue du Hurepoix, a S. Crysostome (ed.). Letters from several parts of Europe and the East. 3. Vol. 3. A Paris.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - Maihows (20 aprile 2016). chez Charpentier, libraire, Quai des Augustins, a l'entree de la rue du Hurepoix, a S. Crysostome (ed.). Letters from several parts of Europe and the East. 4. Vol. 4. A Paris.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)