The Italian: Tourist Fiction An Ann Radcliffe Inspired, Guided Tour of Italy.

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Hello and welcome to my tour of Italy. My name is Jessica and I will be your tour guide.

This particular journey is modeled after the travels of Ellena and Vivaldi, the hero and heroine in Ann Radcliffe’s gothic novel, The Italian.

“Radcliffe was the first to put tourism at the service and center of the Romantic novel. In her work the gothic novel incorporates and is in turn transformed by the narrative conventions of the “old” romances and the vocabulary, socio-aesthetic assumptions, and descriptive techniques of Early-Romantic poetry and late eighteenth century tour books” (Dekker, 71).

Some Background Information:





Landscape with Goatherd, Claude Lorrain 1636, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London. Grotto with CascadesOil painting by Salvatore Rosa (1615-1673)Pitti Gallery, Florence, Italy

“Radcliffe’s scenic descriptions oscillate between the picturesque and the sublime, Claude and Rosa” (Miles, 123).

In and around Naples

We have five stops:

• Villa Altieri• Vesuvius• Vivaldi Family

Palace• Ruins of Paluzzi• Spirito Santo

First Stop: Villa Altieri

“The house was small, but exhibited an air of comfort, and even of taste. It stood on an eminence, surrounded by a garden and vineyards, which commanded the city and bay of Naples, an ever-moving picture, and was canopied by a thick grove of pines and majestic date-trees; and, though the little portico and colonnade in front were of common marble, the style of the architecture was elegant” (6).



Vesuvius

• “It was nearly midnight, and the stillness that reigned was rather soothed than interrupted by the gentle dashing of the waters of the bay below, and by the hollow murmurs of Vesuvius, which threw up, at intervals its sudden flame on the horizon, and then left it to darkness”

(10-11)



The eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 9, 1779

Pietro Fabris (Italian, act. 1768-1778)



View of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Sunday night August the 8th, 1779

Pietro Fabris (Italian, act. 1768-1778)



Mount Vesuvius Theodor Matham (Dutch, 1605/6-1676)

The Vivaldi Family

Palace



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“This delightful residence was situated on an airy promontory, that overhung the water, and was nearly embosomed among the woods, that spread far along the heights, and descended, with great pomp of foliage and colouring, to the very margin of the waves. It seemed scarcely possible that misery could inhabit so enchanting and abode; yet the Marchesa was wretched amidst all these luxuries of nature and art, which would have perfected the happiness of and innocent mind” (291).

Ruins of Paluzzi“Vivaldi again examined the walls, and as unsuccessfully as

before; but in one corner of the vault lay an object, which seemed to tell the fate of one who had been confined here, and to hint his own: it was a garment covered with blood” (76).



Convent of Spirito Santo

“There lived in the Dominican convent of the Spirito Santo, at Naples, a man called father Schedoni, an Italian, as his name imported, but whose family was unknown, and from some circumstances, it appeared, that he wished to throw an impenitrable veil over his origin”(34).QuickTime™ and a

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