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Excerpt from Historical, Literary, and Artistical Travels in Italy: A Complete and Methodical Guide for Travellers and Artists As to the historical and literary part, for which a life past in the midst of books had better prepared me, I have written under the belief that the'reform effected in history in our days, that the system of the true, the painting of particulars, might be likewise extended to a traveller's narrative, to which the principles of the pz'ctur'esque school seemed to me peculiarly applicable. The me morable events, the great personages, the poetical reminiscences of Italy, are therefore interwoven with my account of places and monuments. When inscriptions were characteristic, I have not shrunk from giving them many a time have they revealed to me some touching misfortune, or some superior talent left in obscu rity and neglect. In examining libraries, I have endeavoured to make the history of books bear on the history of men, and to render bibliography instructive and philosophical. The statistical data are drawn from local and official sources, and without going to excess, I thought they might present new views, and some; times supply the place of longer dissertations on the country. Welcomed by my colleagues the librarians, acquainted with mbet of the Italian literati, I have derived invaluable assistance from their obliging answers to my different inquiries. In fine, I have attempted to restore to the poets, the artists, the literati, and all the persons I have introduced, their true Italian physiognomy, too often distorted by the idle fancies of the English, the sentimenta lity of the Germans, or the philosophical spirit of the French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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