Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… its most recognisable form, and the height of its popularity, in the eighteenth century. Most Grand Tourists were the family’s heir, although younger brothers and young men from less wealthy family sometimes joined them as companions, alongside tutors, who acted in loco parentis, and an array of servants. A … from Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Russia. 2 1 . Richard Ansell, Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 124-29. 2 . Paola Bianchi, ‘Una palestra di arti …
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