This book first gained popular success during the 1880s when a
blossoming public awareness followed upon the heels of Victorian
expansionism. Coincidental with this came the spread of education
amongst the English working classes, eager to discover more of the
world around them. Alas, of the hundreds of such travelogues, few
survive the test of time. De Amicis' work is a delightful exception
to this rule, avoiding the dreary catalogue of topographical
description and ignoring Victorian propensity for strict
'educational' value. Perhaps we have the author's Latin temperament
to thank for a work brimming with amusing anecdote, as much devoted
to gossip as to fact. Here is a work that remains fresh and
enlivening despite the passage of years. For this reason, and for
the numerous attractive engravings, it is a deserving subject for
reprinting this fine facsimile edition.
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