Viaggio Nelle Province Meridionali del Regno di Napoli (A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of Naples)

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xxxi, 274 pp. Italian text. A 1990 Italian translation of the work originally published in 1821 as A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of Naples (Pine-Coffin 818.2). The son of a baron, "[h]e published in 1821 ‘A Tour through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples,’ and in 1838 ‘Excursions in the Abruzzi and Northern Provinces of Naples,’ in 2 vols. The former of these two works is embellished with views from his own sketches, and the latter with a smaller number from drawings by W. Westall, A.R.A... Besides the two works already mentioned, there was published in London in 1825 a book entitled ‘Italian Scenes: a Series of interesting Delineations of Remarkable Views and of Celebrated Remains of Antiquity. Chiefly sketched by the Hon. K. Craven.’" -- Dictionary of National Biography Show more