| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison's autobiographical journal, compiled [c.1865-1867], covering Roderick Murchison's and his wife Charlotte's travels in France, Switzerland and Italy, between 1815-1817.
The descriptions from the precis for each chapter are:
Chapter VII (p2)
Winter of 1815-16 at Nursted House, Hants; leave England for a tour in Switzerland and Italy in the Spring of 1816; journey to Paris and fortnight there; trial of Lavalette; first visit to the Academy and Cuvier; Monterau; travel by Dijon to Geneva; Lausanne to Vevay [Vevey]; Summer residence near Byron and the storm on the lakes; tour in Berne, the little Cantons, the Grisons, etc; other long walks to Bex, Martigny, Mont Blanc, etc; Autumn; Vintage and departure from Vevay [Vevey]; by the Vallais and the Simplon to Milan; state of Upper Italy, then under the Austrians; Milan and its sights; La Cortosa; Tortona; Alexandria to Genoa; Winter at Genoa; detestation of the Piedmontese by the Genoese.
Chapter VIII (p58)
Rome in the Spring and Summer of 1817; the Holy Week; Society, Foreign and English; Pope Pius VII and Cardinal Gonsalui; approach of Summer; Canova; the Environs of Rome; shooting at Ostai; Tivoli and Horace’s Farm; the Vatican, the Churches and Galleries of Rome; Canova and Cammucini; Summer Heat in June; Princess of Wales and her disreputable companions at the Festival of the Corpus Domini; Villa Borghese; malaria fever of my Wife; our journey to Naples and her recovery.
Note: the manuscript text is not in Murchison's hand. |