EXAM - English literature 2
Learning foreign
languages, studying history, politics, laws. Looking at architecture, art, antiquities. Man was expected to
return with qualities needed to move in international courtly aristocratic society, fluent in French, graceful
in behaviour, polished in manners.
Singly or in groups, under supervision (bear leader). Aristocrats alone (governor). Fixed route: Low
Countries, France (some months learning language, social graces like dancing, fencing), south to Italy, tour
in Italy (arrivers usually had vague, inaccurate notion of the country), Germany and back home. Italy was
kind of paradise: pictures, landscapes, seeing things only read about before. Autumn (visitor going to
warmth in winter), festivities, spectacles. Critical: Florence, Rome, Naples, Venice. Fount of art, literature,
philosophy, music – cultural mecca. Diplomatic representatives, British residents: opened doors, introduced
to people. Climax in Rome
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