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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… enable Grand Tourists and their families to continue consolidating and expanding on their continental socio-political networks. A typical starting point for attaining the skills was to attend an academy. Initially founded by … For writers and thinkers, travel and the sociability therein acted as an important means of expanding professional networks and becoming part of the republic of letters. In 1764, for example, Adam Smith resigned his chair of Moral … during the Eighteenth Century’, in Hilary Brown and Gilliam Dow (eds.), Readers, Writers, Salonnières: Female Networks in Europe, 1700–1900 (New York: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 23-24, 26. 11 . Elaine Chalus, ‘Spaces of Sociability in …
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… that the young Mozart gave in May 1770 at the home of Countess von Kaunitz, the wife of the Imperial ambassador. 6 Networks of sociability were therefore built by both the men and the women living in Naples long term, and visitors to the area would integrate these networks. Suffering from ill health, Lady Catherine died in 1782. Sir William travelled to England to bury her and settle …
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… them to hold the rank of the function for which they were destined. These interactions also helped them develop their networks of relationships which would be useful for the career to which they aspired. Thanks to the notoriety of his …
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