Italy

John Cam Hobhouse''s 1859 publication provides a detailed account of his travels around Italy between 1816 and 1854. The two volumes contain informative descriptions of the places people and politics of nineteenth-century Italy and the reader will gain fascinating insights into the close relationship between Hobhouse and Lord Byron. Providing a mix of entertaining anecdotes and historical information the volumes explore ''a country now made accessible by a few hours journey and familiar to us by every mode of illustration'' acquainting the Victorian traveller (and now the modern reader) with the Italy ''of times long past''. Volume 1 begins with Hobhouse''s journey from Switzerland to Italy in 1816 and records his impressions of cities including Milan Verona Venice and Rome.