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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
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James Byres [ Travel ]
… reached its height of popularity. Working as a guide, antiquarian, art dealer and architect, Byres rapidly became a key player in Rome’s artistic, cultural and social life. Thanks to his various professional activities, he was a central … Italy Jacobitism Networks The Scotsman James Byres lived for over thirty years in Rome, where he became one of the main players in the artistic, cultural and social life of the second half of the eighteenth century. Within a few years, he … history of Western European art, such as the series of paintings of the Seven Sacraments by Nicolas Poussin, now on display at the National Galleries of Scotland. William Hamilton , the British ambassador to Naples, acquired through Byres …
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… suffered various miscarriages before her only child was born, she ‘nursed up her Infant Daughter my simple Self, to play a thousand pretty Tricks, & tell a Thousand pretty Stories and repeat a Thousand pretty Verses to divert Papa’. 1 A … and Sophia Lee. She formed a lifelong friendship with the great actress, Sarah Siddons, and even tried her hand at playwriting but neither of her attempts ever made it onto the stage. To make money, she contemplated writing a novel … To her contemporaries, Hester Thrale Piozzi was an intelligent, charming, lively, and witty hostess, but this display of brilliancy came at a cost, or so she maintained in 1797 in a lengthy entry in Thraliana . Asked whether she would …
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… sociable practices such as discussions, there was less of an impetus for the latter to develop. The art of conversation played a central role in Parisian salons, alongside gambling and literary readings. (Lilti 273–318) The desired outcomes, … in the same way as in the provincial academies of France, with two forms of meeting: ‘the closed proceedings and the displays of pomp were, for academicians, the two halves of a coherent civil liturgy.’ (Roche 134) The addition of a …
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… Tourists also met and interacted with other British abroad. Diplomats, particularly ambassadors and special envoys, played an important role in facilitating this and other social activity. Some complained bitterly at the time and …
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