"Route from London to Rome", by Nathaniel Marchant

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

HU/1/126

Title

"Route from London to Rome", by Nathaniel Marchant

Date

Jul-Sep 1770

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

A day by day record of Marchant's progression through Europe, giving details of olaces visited and the style of accommodation; provides slightly more detail of his pass through the Alps, noting the prevalence of goitres in the mountain people, attributed to their drinking snow water; his bags are searched on entering the Milanese; he stays for a month in Florence and then continues his journey southward; arrives in Rome on the 1st September and stays at the house of Benedict Armani, Strada dela Croce, which had been recommended to him when in Florence.