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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
… four, or more, of the nobility, have these assemblies at the same time; and almost all the company of a certain rank in Rome make it a point, if they go to any, to go to all; so that, although there is a great deal of bustle, and a continual … his wife, in public, would not be tolerated. At Cardinal Berni’s assembly, which is usually more crowded than any in Rome, the company are served with coffee, lemonade, and iced confections of various kinds; but this custom is not … acquainted with, you bow to the rest, and enjoy the happiness of being squeezed and pressed among the best company in Rome. I do not know what more can be said of these assemblies; only it may be necessary, to prevent mistakes, to add, …
Grand Tour | Italy | Assemblies | Conversation | Diplomacy
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 10-11. 2 . Jean Boutier, Brigitte Marin et Antonella Romano (dirs.), Naples, Rome, Florence: une histoire comparée des milieux intellectuels italiens (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) (Rome: École française de Rome, 2005). 3 . Daniel Roche, Le Siècle des Lumières en province: académies et académiciens provinciaux, 1680-1789 …
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Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]
… d’amateurs et de curieux. Grâce au développement des marchés de l’art européen, à Paris, à Londres, à Amsterdam et à Rome, les réseaux de sociabilité autour des collections d’art et d’antiquités, qui se sont construits dès le XVII e … d’antiquités et associé de Charles Townley, de nombreuses statues et peintures qui proviennent des environs de Rome autour de 1771 : ‘From 1771 to 1772 Mansel Talbot spent £ 2.400 on statues, paintings and works of art. Most pieces were bought via Hamilton and Jenkins and came from excavations in Rome and its surroundings, such as from Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli’. 4 Les collectionneurs britanniques passaient une …
Aesthetics | Art | Collecting | Curiosity | Italy | Museums | Science
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… from 1784 to 1787, Hester Lynch Piozzi described meeting and conversing with a variety of salonniers in Florence, Rome and Venice. 10 Lady Fremantle (nee Wynne) was r aised in the cosmopolitan European elite societies of Germany, … become prime minister in 1770. Less savoury impressions and predications were also accurate. Writing to his sister from Rome in 1756, George Simon Harcourt was surprised to hear ‘[Henry Herbert, 10 th earl of] Pembroke has so good a … to Lord Frederick North. 14 . Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Ms D-LE-E2-18, George Simon Harcourt, Lord Nuneham, Rome, 10 February 1756, to Lady Elizabeth Harcourt. 15 . J. E. O. Screen, ‘Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and …
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
Art | Cosmopolitanism | Diaries | Diplomacy | Education | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy
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Warta and the Duchess of Kingston (1853) [ People ]
… Dans son premier voyage d'Italie, lorsqu'elle était à Rome la véritable souveraine du pape et des Romains, on lui annonça, un jour, un seigneur nommé Warta, prince d'Albanie, …
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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Joseph Severn, ‘Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound’, 1845, Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Severn_-_Posthumous_Portrait_of_Shelley_Writing_Prometheus_Unbound_1845.jpg Image Curran, Amelia, ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 1234, 1819 … (1792-1822) purposely cultivated numerous friendships with the most talented writers of his time. In his preface to Prometheus Unbound , Shelley even endeavoured to theorize the complex workings of poetic influence, implicitly …
Friendship | Italy | Poetry | Romanticism
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