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ALS to Caterina Barbarigo (letter of introduction for David Garrick)
Title
ALS to Caterina Barbarigo (letter of introduction for David Garrick)
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
AMDigital Reference: Osborn MSS F161
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University
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Summary
Letter of introduction written for David Garrick during his 1763-1764 travels in Italy. Garrick, by the time of the continental journey he made with his wife, Eva Maria Veigel, was already an international celebrity. Algarotti and Baretti were both virtuosi with long connections to England and both assisted many English Grand Tourists. The Venetian Algarotti was a mentor of Frederick the Great, an important patron of the arts, and a long-time correspondent of Lord Burlington and other Englishmen. Baretti spent much of his life in England and published an important defense of travel to Italy, An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy; with Observations on the Mistakes of some Travellers, with regard to that Country, 1768.
Variant and related titles
Grand tour.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2023
Series
The Grand Tour
Genre/Form
Personal correspondence
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
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