Accounts of British Travelers to Italy

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Accounts of American Travelers to Italy

Voyages en Italie, accounts of French travelers to Italy

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Beckford, William, 1760-1844

• Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe
  (London, Printed for J. Johnson, 1783)
  (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg)
  Note: Use browser search (ctrl-f  ) for references to Italy

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Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953

• The Path to Rome
  (London, G. Allen, 1902)
  (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg)

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Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

• Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
  (Gloucester: Sutton, 1881)
  (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg)

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Crawford, Mabel Sharman

• Life in Tuscany
  From the London ed. (New York: Sheldon & Co., 1859)
  (Facsimiles, digitized by the University of Michigan)

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

• Pictures from Italy
  (London: Chapman & Hall, 1913)
  (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg)

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

• The Uncommercial Traveler
  (London: Chapman & Hall, 1861)
  (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg)
  Note: See especially Chapter 17.

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Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952

• Alone
  (London: Chapman & Hall, 1921)
  (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg)

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Edwards, Amelia B., 1831-1892

• Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites
  (London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1873)
  (Transcriptions with facsimiles of wood engravings & other illustrations, digitized at the University of Pennsylvania)

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Forbes, James D., 1809-1868

• Travels Through the Alps
  (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1900)
  (Full-text searchable Google Print transcriptions, digitized at Harvard University)

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Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892

• Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice
  (London: Macmillan and Co., 1881)
  (Facsimiles, digitized by the University of Michigan)

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Gissing, George, 1810-1850

• By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
  (London: Chapman & Hall, 1901)
  (Transcriptions, digitized at the University of Nagoya, Japan)

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Lawrence, D. H., 1885-1930

• Twilight in Italy
  (New York, Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith [1929])
  (Transcriptions, digitized at the University of Adelaide, Australia)

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Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

• Mornings in Florence: Being Simple Studies of Christian Art, for English Travellers
  (Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1875-1877.)
  (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg)
  Note: As indicated in the subtitle, this consists mainly of direct art observations.

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Senior, Nassau William, 1790-1864
Journals Kept in France and Italy from 1848-1852. With a Sketch of the Revolution of 1848
Ed. M. C. M. Simpson (London: H. S. King and Co., 1871)

• Journal in Italy: pp. 281-352

(Facsimiles, digitized by the University of Michigan)

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Smollett, Tobias G., 1721-1771

• Travels through France and Italy
  (London: R. Baldwin, 1766)
  (Transcriptions, digitized by Project Gutenberg)

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Smyth, H. Warington, 1867-1943
Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia
(London, J. Murray, 1906)

• Chapter 8: France and the Mediterranean

(Transcriptions, digitized by The Cheap Pages)
Note: See especially Chapter 8.

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