John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… People > Travel People > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Mots-clés Art Cosmopolitanism Diaries Diplomacy Education Entertainement Grand Tour Italy John Ramsay’s Italian diary was published by The Walpole Society in 2003; it is … to be published one day, but rather a writing exercise imposed by his father, anxious to offer his son the best possible education. The descriptions provided by the young Ramsay are often very synthetic, but nonetheless of particular … testimony to the importance of the practices of sociability of British travellers at the height of the Grand Tour, an educational journey which was no longer reserved only for the nobility. It is also one of the rarest testimonies because …
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