James Byres [ Travel ]
… polished manners thanks to their contact with European elite. In order to best prepare them to evolve into fashionable society, they also needed to have a solid artistic culture, to which the guides, also called ciceroni , contributed. In … and real taste’. 8 6 . Thomas Jones, ‘Memoirs of Thomas Jones: Penkerrig Radnorshire 1803’, The Volume of the Walpole Society (vol. 32, 1946-1948), p. 1-143, here p. 94. 7 . Edward Gibbon, The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. … of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself, vol. 1 (London: John Murray, 1814), p. 196. 8 . John Moore, A View of Society and Manners in Italy: with Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent Characters, 5th ed., 2 vols. (London: A. Strahan …
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