John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… had the opportunity to develop his network of relations and to perfect his social education during the many dinners and salons to which he was invited. In Rome, he went to visit James Byres regularly and was thus able to frequent many … very fine landskape by Claud Lorrain .’ (Ramsay 93) In Naples and Florence, he was very regularly invited to dinners and salons organised by the British diplomats Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803), Ambassador to the court of Naples, and Sir …
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