barretti's

Updated: May 22, 2025

Subsequent travellers, however, in some places differ from him in opinion, and in others question his accuracy and judgment. Grosley's Observations on Italy. 2 vols. 8vo. Chiefly political and anecdotal; in some parts of doubtful authority: translated from the French. Sharp's Letters on Italy. 1769. 4 vols. 8vo. Barretti's Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy. 1770. 2 vols. 8vo.

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By De Blainville. 1749. 3 vols. 4to. Smollet's Travels through France and Italy. 1766. 2 vols. 8vo. Barretti's Journey from London to Genoa, through Portugal, Spain, and France. 1770. 2 vols. 8vo. Dr. Moore's View of the Customs and Manners of France, Germany, and Switzerland. 2 vols. 8vo. Dr. C.J. Smith's Sketch of a Tour on the Continent in 1786-7. 3 vols. 8vo. 1807.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson

Barretti's work is certainly more accurate than that of Sharp, but in opposing him, he has sometimes gone into the opposite extreme: from comparing both, perhaps the reality may often be extracted. Manners and national character are their chief topics. View of Society and Manners in Italy. By Dr. Moore, 1781. 2 vols. 8vo.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson