AS A MONUMENT OF AN; INSTRUCTIVE AND BY HIS LORDSHIP'S FELLOW-TRAVELLER AND MOST SINCERE FRIEND, JOHN CHETWODE EUSTACE. THE Author presents the following pages to the Public with diffidence. He is aware that the very title of a Tour through Italy » is sufficient in itself to raise expectations, which, as he has learned from the fate of similar composition, is more frequently disappointed than satisfied. To avoid as much as possible this inconvenience, he thinks it necessary to state preci sely the nature and object of the present work, that the reader may enter upon its perusal with some previous knowledge of its contents. The Preliminary Discourse is intended chiefly for the information of young and inexperienced travellers, and points out the qualities and accomplishments requisite to enable them to derive from an Italian Tour, its full advantages. The Reader then comes to the Tour itself. The epithet Classical sufficiently points out its peculiar character, which is to trace the resemblance between Modern and Ancient Italy, and to take for guides and companions in the beginning of the nineteenth century, the writers that pre |