Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… on their continental socio-political networks. A typical starting point for attaining the skills was to attend an academy. Initially founded by seventeenth-century French educators to deter their nobility from attending Italian … with strong ties to courtly life, such as Turin’s Accademia Reale and the Duke of Lorraine’s Nancy and Lunéville academy. 1 Through these institutions and the wider range of masters who gravitated to the area, Grand Tourists would … XVI–XIX), ed. M. Bellabarba and J. P. Niederkorn (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2010), pp. 140-41, 146-48. Beyond the academy walls, Grand Tourists tried out their social graces by participating in continuous rounds of sociability, during …
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