Travels Through France and Italy

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Travels Through France and Italy is a work of

In April 1763, the 15-year-old Elizabeth Smollett died. She was the only known child of Tobias Smollett. In June 1763, Tobias left England with his wife. The couple travelled across the Kingdom of France to Nice. In the autumn of 1764, Smollett visited Genoa, Rome, Florence and other towns of the Italian Peninsula. After staying in Nice for the winter, Smollett returned to London by June 1765. Travels Through France and Italy is his account of this journey.

Contents

Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of

Laurence Sterne, who met Smollett in Italy, satirized Smollett's jaundiced attitude in the character of Smelfungus in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, which was written in part as an answer to Smollett's book.

References

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Travels through France and Italy". II. Fielding and Smollett. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–21).

Sources and external links

• Travels through France and Italy at Project Gutenberg
• Travels through France and Italy, volume XI of The Works of Tobias Smollett, edited by William Ernest Henley, Scribner's sons, 1900. Introduction by Thomas Seccombe. From Google Books.
• Frank Felsenstein, ed. (1999), Travels through France and Italy, Oxford World's Classics,
  ISBN 0-19-283634-X
  . Introduction. 60 pages of footnotes.