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Rome in the Footsteps of an XVIIIth Century Traveller
Bibliography
The text of the pages on Rome is based on the consultation of several current guides of the city, atlases, encyclopaedias. I found particularly helpful the detailed guides (Guide Rionali di Roma) published by Fratelli Palombi Editori. In addition to these sources of information I consulted the following books. The texts on locations outside Rome and its environs often include excerpts from travel accounts which are listed at the end of this page.
Old Guides and Travel Accounts:
- G. Martin - Roma Sancta - 1581
- G. Francino - Le Cose Maravigliose dell'Alma Città di Roma - 1588
- F. Vacca - Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma - 1594
- F. Moryson - An Itinerary containing his Travel in Italy - 1594
- J. Evelyn - Diary and Correspondence - 1644
- F. Mortoft - Journal of his Travels in France and Italy - 1659
- R. Lassels - The Voyage to Italy - 1668
- F. Titi - Studio di Pittura, Scoltura et Architettura nelle Chiese di Roma - 1674/1763
- J. Addison - Remarks on several parts of Italy - 1703
- J & J. Richardson - Account on some of the Statues, etc. in Italy - 1722
- C. de Brosses - Lettres familières écrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740
- T. Gray - Letters from France and Italy in 1739-1740
- G. Vasi - Sulle Meraviglie di Roma Antica e Moderna - 1747/1761
- G. Vasi - Itinerario istruttivo per ritrovare con facilità tutte le magnificenze di Roma e di alcune città, e castelli suburbani - 1761
- J. Boswell - Letters on the Grand Tour - 1765
- T. Smollett - Travels through France and Italy - 1765
- J. Moore - View of Society and Manners in Italy (in 1775) - publ. 1781
- J. W. Goethe - Italienische Reisen - 1786/88
- J. Forsyth - Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters in Italy - 1803
- J. C. Eustace - Classical Tour of Italy in 1802 (publ. 1813)
- M. Vasi - Itinerario Istruttivo di Roma Antica e Moderna - 1816
- J. Cam Hobhouse - Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome - 1818
- Lady Maria Callcott - Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome - 1819
- H. Matthews - Diary of an Invalid (in 1817-1818)
- A. Jameson - Diary of an Ennuyée (in 1821-1822)
- W. Hazlitt - Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy in 1824-1825
- Stendhal - Promenades dans Rome - 1829
- A. Nibby - Itinéraire de Rome - 1834
- William Gell - The Topography of Rome and its vicinity - 1834
- Stendhal - Chroniques Italiennes - 1837/39
- J. Donovan - Rome Ancient and Modern and its environs - 1842
- C. Dickens - Pictures from Italy - 1846
- G. Stillman Hillard - Six Months in Italy - 1848
- F. Gregorovius - Diario Romano - 1852/74
- F. Gregorovius - Passeggiate Romane - 1853/62
- A. J. Du Pays - Itinéraire de l'Italie - 1855
- M. Twain - The Innocents Abroad - 1869
- H. James - Italian Hours - 1873
- A. J. C. Hare - Days Near Rome - 1875
- K. Baedeker - Central Italy - 1883
- M. Armellini - Le Chiese di Roma - 1887
- W. D. Howells - Roman Holidays and Others - 1908
History and Art:
- C. Ripa - Iconologia - 1603
- G. Palazzo - Gesta Pontificum Romanorum - 1688
- A. Ruffini - Dizionario delle strade, piazze, borghi di Roma - 1847
- C. Maes - Curiosità Romane - 1885
- R. Lanciani - Pagan and Christian Rome - 1892
- R. Lanciani - Forma Urbis Romae - 1893
- E. Rodocanachi - Cortigiane e Buffoni di Roma - 1927
- R. Wittkower - Art and Architecture in Italy - 1600-1750 - Penguin Books 1958
- R. Wittkower - Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism - Academy Editions 1962
- R. & M. Wittkower - Born under Saturn - Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1963
- P. Portoghesi - Roma Barocca - Edizioni Laterza 1966
- Guida ai Misteri e Segreti di Roma - Sugar Edizioni - 1968
- H. Honour - Neo-classicism - Penguin Books 1968
- R. Wittkower - Sculpture: Processes and Principles - Penguin Books 1977
- M. Quercioli - Le Mura e le Porte di Roma - Newton Compton 1982
- R. A. Staccioli - Guida di Roma Antica - Rizzoli 1986
- M. Marini - Le vedute di Roma di Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Newton Compton 1989
- C. Rendina - I Papi: Storia e Segreti - Newton Compton 1993
- M. Greschat - Storia dei Papi - Edizioni S. Paolo - 1994
- P. Coen - Le magnificenze di Roma nelle incisioni di Giuseppe Vasi - Newton Compton 1996
- P. Levillain - Dizionario Storico del Papato - Bompiani Editori - 1996
- AA. VV. - Storia di Roma Antica - Newton Compton 1997
- D. Pertica - Roma delle Meraviglie - NES Edizioni - 1998
- M. A. Lozzi Bonaventura - A piedi in Roma I-IX - Edizioni Iter 1999
- Roma Sacra I-XXXIII - Elio de Rosa Editore 1995-2005
- Roma Archeologica I-XXVII - Elio de Rosa Editore 1999-2005
- P. Hoffmann - Le Ville di Roma - Newton Compton 2001
- A. Giardina - Storia di Roma Antica - Laterza Editori 2000
- A. Vauchez - Storia di Roma Medievale - Laterza Editori 2001
- A. Pinelli - Storia di Roma nel Rinascimento - Laterza Editori 2001
- G. Ciucci - Storia di Roma Moderna - Laterza Editori 2002
- V. Vidotto - Storia di Roma Capitale - Laterza Editori 2002
- L. De Rosa - Storia di Roma del Duemila - Laterza Editori 2000
- A. Caldana - Le Guide di Roma - Palombi Editori 2003
- G. Heiken, R. Funiciello, D. De Rita - The Seven Hills of Rome - Princeton University Press 2005
- H. Brandt - L'epoca tardoantica - Il Mulino 2005
Heraldry:
- T. Amayden - Storia delle Famiglie Romane - XVIIth century
- F. Juvarra - Raccolta di varie targhe fatte da professori primarii di Roma - 1711
- Dizionario Araldico - Edizioni Hoepli 1921
- A. Parravicini Baglioni - Le Chiavi e la Tiara - Viella Editori 1998
- C. Rendina - Le grandi famiglie di Roma - Newton Compton 2004
- Z. Cech - Papezske Snaky - Karmelitanske Nakladatelstvi 2009
The pages on other Italian locations and other countries include excerpts from the following travel accounts:
- The Travels of Marco Polo (between 1271 and 1295) - translated by Henry Yule (Persia)
- H. A. R. Gibb - Selection from the Travels of Ibn Battuta in 1325-1354 (Morocco, Spain, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Persia, Central Asia)
- Leo Africanus - The history and description of Africa - 1526 - by John Pory (Morocco)
- Sir Thomas Herbert - Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique - 1638 (Persia)
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier - Travels through Turkey and Persia (1630s-1660s) (Turkey, Persia)
- George Wheler - A journey into Greece, in company of Dr. Spon of Lyons - 1682 (Croatia, Greece)
- Sir John Chardin - Travels into Persia and the East Indies - 1686 (Persia)
- Bernard Randolph, b. 1643. The present state of the islands in the archipelago. (Greece)
- Henry Maundrell - A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter - 1697 (Lebanon, Palestine)
- Thomas Shaw - Travels to several parts of Barbary and the Levant - 1738 (Algeria, Tunisia, Palestine)
- Richard Pococke - A Description of the East and Some Other Countries - 1745 (Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Italy, Germany)
- Thomas Nugent - The Grand Tour - 1749 (Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy)
- Thomas Broderick - Letters from Several Parts of Europe, and the East: in the Years 1750, etc. (Greece)
- Patrick Brydone - A Tour to Sicily and Malta in 1770 (Italy, Malta)
- Richard Chandler - An account of a tour made for the Society of dilettanti - 1775 (Greece, Turkey)
- Henry Swinburne - Travels through Spain (1776) and the Two Sicilies (1780) (Spain, France, Italy)
- Louis de Chénier - The Present State of the Empire of Morocco - 1788 (Morocco)
- Richard Colt Hoare - A classical tour through Italy in 1790 (Italy, Malta)
- John B.S. Morritt - Journeys in Europe and Asia Minor in the years 1794-1796 (Turkey, Greece)
- James Dallaway - Constantinople Ancient and Modern with Excursions - 1797 (Turkey)
- Edward Daniel Clarke - Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa in 1799-1804 (Greece)
- Alexandre de Laborde - A View of Spain - 1809 (Spain)
- George Cockburn - A voyage to Sicily and Malta in 1810 (Italy, Malta)
- Ulrich J. Seetzen - A Brief Account of the Countries Adjoining the Lake of Tiberias, etc. - 1810 (Jordan)
- Charles R. Cockerell - Travels in southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817 (Greece, Turkey)
- William Gell - An Itinerary of Greece - 1810 and A Journey in the Morea - 1823 (Greece)
- Francis Beaufort - Karamania; or a description of the South Coast of Asia Minor - 1817 (Turkey)
- François C. H. L. Pouqueville - Travels in the Morea, Albania, etc. - 1817 (Greece)
- William Coxe - Galignani's Traveller's Guide Through France -1819 (France)
- William Turner - Journal of a Tour in the Levant - 1820 (Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Palestine)
- Christian Muller - Journey through Greece and the Ionian Islands: in 1821 (Greece)
- Johann L. Burckhardt - Travels in Syria and the Holy Land - 1822 (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan)
- John Russell - A Tour in Germany, and the Southern Provinces of Austria - 1825 (Austria)
- Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell - A Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia - 1826 (Turkey)
- William M. Leake - Travels in Asia (1824), the Morea (1830), Northern Greece (1835) (Greece, Turkey)
- John Madox - Excursions in the Holy land, Egypt, etc. - 1834 (Greece)
- Robert Pashley - Travels in Crete - 1834 (Greece)
- Sir Grenville Temple - Excursions in the Mediterranean - 1835 (Tunisia)
- Léon de Laborde - Journey through Arabia Petraea - 1836 (Jordan)
- Charles Fellows - Journal Written during an Excursion in Asia Minor in 1838 (Turkey)
- Thomas Roscoe - The Tourist in Spain and Morocco - 1838 (Morocco)
- Edward Robinson - Biblical Researches in Palestine etc. - 1838/1852 (Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon)
- William Hamilton - Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia - 1842 (Turkey)
- William F. Ainsworth - Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, etc. - 1842 (Turkey)
- John Clark Kennedy - Algeria and Tunisia in 1845 (Algeria)
- William Richard Holmes - Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian - 1845 (Persia)
- George Dennis - The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria - 1848 and 1878 ed. (Italy)
- Richard Ford - A Handbook for Travellers in Spain - 1855 (Spain)
- Thomas Adolphus Trollope - A Lenten Journey in Umbria and the Marches - 1862 (Italy)
- Arminius Vambery - Travels in Central Asia in 1863 (Central Asia)
- Gerhard Rohlfs - Adventures in Morocco - 1874 (Morocco)
- Arthur Arnold - Through Persia by Caravan - 1877 (Persia, Azerbaijan)
- Claude Reignier Conder - The survey of western Palestine - 1883 (Palestine)
- Sir Thomas Graham Jackson - Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria - 1887 (Italy, Croatia)
- James Theodore Bent - The Cyclades - 1885 (Greece)
- Henry Fanshawe Tozer - The islands of the Aegean Sea - 1890 (Greece)
- Augustus J. C. Hare - Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily - 1891 (Italy)
- George N. Curzon (Lord Curzon) - Persia and the Persian Question - 1892 (Persia)
- Edward Granville Brown - A Year amongst the Persians - 1893 (Persia)
- Samuel Graham Wilson - Persian Life and Customs - 1895 (Persia)
- A. Henry Savage Landor - Across Coveted Lands - 1902 (Persia, Azerbaijan)
- Dawkins, R. M., & Wace, Alan J. B. Notes from the Sporades - 1906 (Greece)
- Gertrude Lowthian Bell - Amurath to Amurath - 1911 (Turkey)
- Robert Byron - The Road to Oxiana - 1937 (Persia)
- T. E. Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom - 1940 (Jordan)
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