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In December 1820, at twenty-one years old, Edward Geoffrey Stanley,
the future 14th earl of Derby and three-times prime minister, began
an extensive tour of continental Europe. By the time of his return
to England twenty months later, he had visited many of the foremost
centres for art and culture in Europe, and mostly in Italy. In his
travel diaries he recorded his intensive social life, his visits to
historical sites, his viewings of art collections, his comments on
architecture, his admiration of landscapes and his impressions of
foreign societies. He was energetic, enthusiastic and discerning:
the bridge of Augustus in Umbria gave him 'a stupendous idea of
Roman grandeur'; the charm of the towns crowning the Tuscan hills
struck him with the same delight that he felt when gazing at one of
Poussin's paintings; the waterfall at Terni, which dropped 370 feet
into an abyss of spray, was 'awfully magnificent'; while the
ceremonies of the Italian Catholic Church he judged to be a blend
of mummery, superstition and bigotry. Sights and experiences like
these influenced him for the rest of his life. This precious
collection of diaries, found only recently and published here for
the first time, reveal Edward Stanley to have been a young man of
diligence, courage and decisiveness: a future leader with a
conspicuous and burgeoning sense of political and social justice.
It was these characteristics, seen in early development within
these pages, that shaped the man and the extraordinary career to
come.
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