This essay was published as part of the proceedings of the conference on The residences of Pisa. The art of living in the palaces of an ancient Maritime Republic from the Middle Ages to the Unification of Italy, held in Pisa in October 2009 (there was not a call for paper for the conference, all the speakers were invited by the scientific committee and the volume has been peer-reviewed). The essay reconstructs the history of the Grand Tour in Tuscany, and Pisa in particular. After discussing the image of Pisa that emerges from the accounts of early travelers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Villani describes the British presence in the city in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The 1820s mark the years in which the residence of Shelley and Byron in Pisa would make the city “a little nest of singing birds.” The stay in Pisa of the Shelleys, Byron and their friends made it a something of a cult place in subsequent years.

Il Grand Tour degli inglesi a Pisa (secoli XVII-XIX)

VILLANI, STEFANO
2010-01-01

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This essay was published as part of the proceedings of the conference on The residences of Pisa. The art of living in the palaces of an ancient Maritime Republic from the Middle Ages to the Unification of Italy, held in Pisa in October 2009 (there was not a call for paper for the conference, all the speakers were invited by the scientific committee and the volume has been peer-reviewed). The essay reconstructs the history of the Grand Tour in Tuscany, and Pisa in particular. After discussing the image of Pisa that emerges from the accounts of early travelers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Villani describes the British presence in the city in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The 1820s mark the years in which the residence of Shelley and Byron in Pisa would make the city “a little nest of singing birds.” The stay in Pisa of the Shelleys, Byron and their friends made it a something of a cult place in subsequent years.
2010
Villani, Stefano
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