| This work deals with the historical and literary dimension of the travel, taking into account its material aspects, which will arouse the interest of the specialists of the novel as well of those of the history of art or mentalities. |
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| Dorothée Orjol |
| 23 January 2003 |
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Support: book
Media's author : BRILLI Attilio
Language : French
Editor : Gérard Monfort
Publishing year : 2001
ISBN/ISSN : 2.85226.534.6
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Collection Dilettanti
12.9 x 20 cm, 161 p. |
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What is the "art of travel" today, where movements have become obligatory and ceaseless? Other times always knew how to practise travel like one of the most sophisticated art :
The Grand Tour, made during the 18th and 19th centuries by the heirs of the aristocracy accompanied by authentic scientists who served them as guides, is the better illustration of it. This travel through Europe, and more precisely in direction of Italy, was a didactic travel whose goal was the training of the young gentlemen. They were confronted with sometimes banal and sometimes diverting situations, sometimes familiar and sometimes "strange" situations ; the Grand Tour answered an old requirement, which had been formulated by Montaigne: "to rub its own brain with that of the others". Its development, in the prolongation of humanism, is peculiar to the modern History.
To rebuild the artistic and literary history of the Grand Tour is also to consider the means of transport of the past centuries, the various aspects of hospitality, the social membership of the travellers and the perception with which the contemporaries of these wandering aristocrats had of them. With the Grand Tour, it is one of the most beautiful forms of intellectual adventure which has disappeared.
Translated from Italian by Marie José Tramuta
First edition in Italian at the Editions Il Mulino in 1995.
Original title : Quando viaggiare era un'arte. Il romanzo del Grand Tour. |
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