FABBRI, Lorenzo

(Forlì ? – ?), he travelled to England in 1772 to accompany the wife of musician Giovan Battista Cirri. On his journey he wrote a journal, Diario, which was found and published by Furio Luccichenti (1999), which tells about his adventures in France and England. It is very interesting for the many details from everyday life.

ANGIOLINI, Luigi

(Seravezza, LU, 1750 – ivi 1821), scholarly diplomat, he travelled to England in 1787 together with the Neapolitan ambassador B. Forteguerri, and visited Scotland. He wrote a book of letters, Lettere sopra l'Inghilterra, la Scozia e l'Olanda; he only published the first two volumes in 1790, and never published the third one on Holland, probably because of the scant success of the publication.

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CARONNI, Felice

(Monza 1747 - Milano 1815) churchman. In 1790 he was in Hungary to organise the numismatic collections of Count Mihaly Viczay at Hedervar. The following year he travelled for nine months all around Europe, collecting coins, gems and manuscripts. In 1979 he was back in Italy. In 1804, while travelling from Palermo to Naples, he was captured by pirates and taken to Tunisia. He was liberated after three months, but when he reached Leghorn he was quaranteened till 1805. In 1805 he published his memoir of the imprisonment in Tunisia, Ragguaglio del viaggio compendioso d'un dilettante antiquario sorpreso da' corsari e condotto in Barberia e felicemente ripatriato (1805). The following year he published a second memoir, Ragguaglio di alcuni monumenti di antichità ed arti raccolti da un dilettante antiquario (1806), where he described the ruins of Carthage among other things. In 1806 he was in Vienna and then again in Hedervar. In 1808 he visited the mines in Transilvania, and four years later he published a memoir on this journey, Caronni in Dacia. Mie osservazioni... sui Valacchi specialmente e zingari transilvani (1812). He went back to Milan, but had to flee to Austria because of his anti-French feelings. When Milan passed again under Austrian domination, he went back and died there in 1815.

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Clerici 2008, p. 1257

Ragguaglio del viaggio compendioso

Ragguaglio di alcuni monumenti

Caronni in Dacia

BORRA, Giovanni Battista

(San Giorgio Canavese TO - Torino 1786) architect, participated in the expedition to Palmyra (Syria) organised by Robert Wood, J. Dawkins and J. Bouverie. After some months of preparation, the expedition left in 1750, touched several islands in the Aegean Sea, Athens, Asia Minor, Palestine and Egypt. It went back to England in 1751. The journey is narrated in two volumes published by Wood in London in 1753-57 with etchings by Borra:  The ruins of Palmyra otherwise Tedmor in the desart, end The ruins of Balbec otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria.
His sketchbooks are preserved at the Society for the promotion of Hellenic Studies in London.
He (or his brother) worked at Stowe with Lord Temple.

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The Ruins of Palmyra

Querini, Angelo

(Venice 1721 - 1796). senator of the Venitian Republic, he went on a tour to Switzerland in 1777. His journal (Giornale del viaggio nella Svizzera) was published posthumously by Girolamo Festari (1835).
Clerici 2008, p. 612.

GAZZOLA, Gian Angelo

(Piacenza 1664 – ivi? 1736) diplomat, envoy to London of the Duke of Parma Francesco Farnese between April 1713 and October 1715, and then a second time in an unspecified period. His letters, unpublished, describe the English potitical system and some of the most prominent personalities of the time. See Gallini1997.

Bertola de Giorgi, Aurelio

(Rimini 1753 - Rimini 1798) poet and academic, fled to Hungary as a young man to join the military life. In 1783 he was in Vienna, where he got in contact with fellow citizen Giuseppe Garampi, who was the Nuncio (diplomatic representative of the Holy See) there.

He travelled in Switzerland (where he met the beloved poet Salomon Gessner) and in Germany; this experience is told in Viaggio sul Reno e ne' suoi contorni (1795). 

His writings contributed to the diffusion of Pre-Romantic themes in Italy. DBI