The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 1: With an Appendix, Containing an Abridged Translation of Lanzi's Storia Pittorica "Italy, " observes Dean Berkley, in a letter to Pope, "is such an exhausted subject, that, I dare say, you would easily forgive my saying nothing about it." If such a remark was applicable in 1717, how much more must it be so now, when, as d'Israeli expresses it, "Travels and Voyages have become a class of literature so fashionable, that we begin to dread the arrival of certain persons from the Continent!" but more especially from Italy. That a country so celebrated both in ancient and modern times, a country equally attractive to the antiquary, the painter, and the poet, would meet with many willing to undertake the task of describing it, rather than able to execute it properly, might well have been imagined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.