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The essay comments on a grand tour (Landerreise) taken by the moderately wealthy Count Franz Julius Verdugo (1661-1712) in 1681-1683. The tour led him to the noble academy in Turin (six months), to Papal Rome (six months), the noble academy in French Angers (three months), Paris (three months) and the governor’s court in Brussels (about two months). Based on a research into almost 160 letters, the...
Tutors of young noblemen played a fairly important role in the educational process during the Early Modern Age. At the beginning, they acted mainly as teachers, but later on as their charges started to travel for educational purposes their duties broadened, since they had to organize the journeys, secure its material aspects and to generally oversee the young nobleman. The travel journal of one of...
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