ID 1028477
Lot 176 | Viaggio in Grecia. London [but Rome], 1799, 2 volumes
Valeur estimée
£ 1 000 – 1 500
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (182 x 120mm.), contemporary sheep-backed boards, later inventory label on spine
A RARE ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS IN GREECE. “It would be difficult to find in this book, composed of ‘letters’ sent to ‘intimate’ friends, many literary fashions of which Scrofani does not make some use. He fantasizes on the courtesans dedicated to the temple of Venus at Syracuse in the spirit of Montesquieu, he recreates the everyday life of ancient Greece in the spirit of Barthelemy. Like Volney he loses himself in profound reveries upon the ruins, like Gessner and Delille (both of whom he mentions) he draws landscapes of ideal pastoral beauty” (Robert Bufalini, “Saverio Scrofani's Viaggio in Grecia and Late Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing” in: Italica, Spring, 1997, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 43-51)
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