Observation and reflection — two “tourist” accounts from 18th-century Spain
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM67.2019.2.002Keywords:
Giuseppe Antonio Baretti, Edward Clarke, Enlightenment, Spain, travel accountsAbstract
Travel accounts of Spain in the Age of Enlightenment are rare. The author investigates two nearly simultaneously produced travel accounts from the early 1760s: one by an Italian, Giuseppe Antonio Baretti, who went from Lisbon to Italy, and another by an Englishman, Edward Clarke, who travelled across Spain in the opposite direction. The two travellers differed in their perspec-tives: they noticed, appreciated and commented on different social situations, political events and personal encounters which occurred during their journeys. They had different culturally--oriented mindsets and stores of memories, which they conveyed in the printed accounts that they published. The Italian expatriate returning home from London emphasized aspects of Iberian culture different from those noticed by the British official (an embassy chaplain) com-pleting his mission. The author tries to establish the reasons of the differences and similarities in their views, asking whether one of them was that the Englishman pursued an established tradition of report-type travel writing while the Italian ventured to combine observation with a personal and subjective commentary.
Downloads
References
Journey. 1770. A Journey from London to Genoa through England, Portugal, Spain and France by Joseph Baretti [...] in four volumes, London, printed for T. Davies in Russel-street, Covent--Garden, and L. Davis, Holborn.
An Account. 1768. An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy, with Observations on the Mistakes of some Travellers with Regard to that Country, by Joseph Baretti, London, printed for T. Davis in Russell street, Covent Garden, and L. Davis & Rymers, Holborn.
[Baretti Giuseppe Antonio]. 1912. [Baretti Giuseppe Antonio], La Scelta delle lettere familiari, a cura di Luigi Piccioni, Bari.
Baretti Giuseppe Antonio. 1967. Opere, wyd. F. Fido, Milan.
Boswell James. 1934–1950. The Life of Samuel Johnson, wyd. G.B. Hill (rev. L.F. Powell), 6 vols., Oxford.
[de Silhouette M.]. 1770, Voyage de France, d’Espagne, de Portugal et d’Italie, par M.S., Paris.
Dziennik podróży. 1970. Dziennik podróży do Francji i Włoch Augusta Moszyńskiego, architekta JKM Stanisława Augusta Poniatowskiego, 1784–1786, wybór i przekł. B. Zboińska-Daszyńska, Kraków.
„Gentleman‘s Magazine”. 1750, vol. 20; 1760, vol. 30.
Giuseppe Baretti. 1994. Giuseppe Baretti, Narrazione incompiuta di un viaggio in Inghilterra, Portogallo e Spagna, wyd. M. Catucci, Roma.
Hervey Christopher. 1785. Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany, in the Years 1759, 1760 and 1761, 3 vols., London.
Lettere Familiari. 1967. Lettere Familiari A’ Suoi Tre Fratelli Filippo, Giovanni e Amadeo, [w:] G.A. Ba-retti, Opere, wyd. F. Fido, Milan.
Letters. 1763. Letters concerning the Spanish Nation written at Madrid during the years 1760 and 1761 by Rev. Edward Clarke /.../ London, printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, at Tully’s Head in the Strand MDCCLXIII.„London Magazine”, vol. 24, 1755; vol. 25, 1756; vol. 29, 1760; vol. 32, 1763; vol. 39, 1770.
„Oxford Magazine”, vol. 5, 1770.
„Philosophical Transactions (1683–1775)”, vol. 52, 1761–1762.
Potocki Ignacy. 2016. Ignacy Potocki, Dzienniki i listy z podróży po Europie (1765–1771), wstęp i oprac. A. Kucharski, Staropolskie podróżowanie, t. IV, red. B. Rok, F. Wolański, Kraków.
„The Critical Review”, vol. 15, 1765; vol. 30, 1770.
The Professed Cook. 1769. The Professed Cook, or, the Modern Art of Cookery, Pastry and Confectionary Made Plain and Easy,/.../ 2nd.edn., London, printed for R. Davis in Piccadilly and T. Caslon opposite Stationers-Hall.
The Whole Duty of a Woman. 1737. The Whole Duty of a Woman, or, an Infalliable Guide to the Fair Sex, London, printed for T. Read in Dogwell Court, WhiteFriars, Fleet Street.
Smollett Tobias. 1979. Travels Through France and Italy, wyd. F. Felsenstein, Oxford–New York. „Universal Magazine”, vol. 5, 1749. Opracowania Adams Percy. 1978.
Travel Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Review of Recent Approaches, „Texas Studies in Literature and Language”, vol. 20, no. 3, s. 488–515.
A Dictionary. 1997. A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701–1800, wyd. J. Ingamells, London–New Haven.
Amory Hugh. 1971. Fielding’s Lisbon Letters, „Huntingdon Library Quarterly”, vol. 35, no. 1, s. 65–83.
Batten Jr. Charles. 1978. Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature, Berkeley–Los Angeles.
Publication co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education under the program "Support for scientific journals 2019-2020"
