Viaggio Nelle Province Meridionali del Regno di Napoli (A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of Naples)

Viaggio Nelle Province Meridionali del Regno di Napoli (A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of Naples)

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xxxi, 274 pp. Italian text. A 1990 Italian translation of the work originally published in 1821 as A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of Naples (Pine-Coffin 818.2). The son of a baron, "[h]e published in 1821 ‘A Tour through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples,’ and in 1838 ‘Excursions in the Abruzzi and Northern Provinces of Naples,’ in 2 vols. The former of these two works is embellished with views from his own sketches, and the latter with a smaller number from drawings by W. Westall, A.R.A... Besides the two works already mentioned, there was published in London in 1825 a book entitled ‘Italian Scenes: a Series of interesting Delineations of Remarkable Views and of Celebrated Remains of Antiquity. Chiefly sketched by the Hon. K. Craven.’" -- Dictionary of National Biography