Anglo-Florentines
Subtitle: The British in Tuscany, 1814-1860
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781350133617
Subjects: British, europe; Great britain, emigration and immigration; Italy, emigration and immigration; Italy, history; Tuscany (italy)
Description: "This book looks at the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; the British clergy and physicians who ministered to them were gentlemen. Many others were shopkeepers, merchants and even engineers. Some achieved a more profound knowledge of the country (and its language) than others, but all were affected to some degree by the momentous events which led to Italian unification."--