The Fatal Gift of Beauty
Subtitle: The Italies of British Travellers. An Annotated Anthology. (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Published: January 1, 1996
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9789051839432
Subjects: Travel writing; Italy
First sentence: Liddle/Scott's Greek-English Lexicon tells us that one of the original meanings of the Greek word for "theory" is "to go abroad to see the world".1