Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Filippo Strozzi: A History of the Last Days of the Old Italian Liberty
In the old time, when a visit to Italy was a long, difficult, and costly affair, when only 'persons ofquality attempted it, and these went abundantly furnished with letters of introduction, they became acquainted, indeed, with the courts and court circles, and diplomatic residents of the capitals at which they sojourned. But in Italy, lea than in any other country, was this any advance towards know ing the people. In modern days, on the other hand, when all the world travels, the Englishman doing his Italy.
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