Journal of a Tour in Italy. With reflections on the Present Condition and prospects of Religion in that Country

Two volumes. 8vo. xii, 309 pp. plus one leaf of ads; xii, 353 pp., plus one page of ads. Original brown embossed cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. Near fine copy.

Nephew of William and esteemed scholar of Greece and ancient religion. Inscribed to A J Beresford Hope. Later signature of Arthur Taylor on the front free endpapers.

"The Author's design will have been fully accomplished, if they serve to shed any light on the religious condition of Italy; and to render any assistance, however small, to the endeavours of those loyal and disinterested persons in that country, who are labouring to build up and consolidate the fabric of constitutional Monarchy, and of social Order, Prosperity, and Peace, on the foundations of true Religion; and to restore the Church of Italy to the purity, liberty, and vigour, which distinguished her in ancient times."

The first volume focuses on Milan and Florence and discusses both the histories of these great cities but also the religious controversies which raged from the period of the Reformation to the present time. Volume two primarily focuses on Rome, Genoa and Turin. In all the cities that he visited he spent a great deal of time in the libraries, especially the (Ambrosiana and Vatican) searching for the clues that would illuminate the present state of religion in Italy.