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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61893#0012
PREFACE.
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chiefly for the information of young and
inexperienced travellers, and points out
the qualities and accomplishments requisite
to enable them to derive from an Italian
Tour, its full advantages. The Reader
then comes to the Tour itself.
The epithet Classical sufficiently points
out its peculiar character, which is to trace
the resemblance between Modern and
Ancient Italy, and to take for guides and
companions in the beginning of the nine-
teenth century, the writers that preceded
or adorned the first. Conformably to that
character, the Author may be allowed to
dwell with complacency on the incidents
of ancient history, to admit every poetical
recollection, and to claim indulgence, if in
describing objects so often alluded to by
the Latin writers, he should frequently
borrow their expressions;
vi
chiefly for the information of young and
inexperienced travellers, and points out
the qualities and accomplishments requisite
to enable them to derive from an Italian
Tour, its full advantages. The Reader
then comes to the Tour itself.
The epithet Classical sufficiently points
out its peculiar character, which is to trace
the resemblance between Modern and
Ancient Italy, and to take for guides and
companions in the beginning of the nine-
teenth century, the writers that preceded
or adorned the first. Conformably to that
character, the Author may be allowed to
dwell with complacency on the incidents
of ancient history, to admit every poetical
recollection, and to claim indulgence, if in
describing objects so often alluded to by
the Latin writers, he should frequently
borrow their expressions;