Visitors to Verona

From more than 400 books and manuscripts, Caroline Webb has selected impressions of Verona [...]. The overall effect is entertaining, and Visitors to Verona is also an informative guide to the city and to many aspects of Italian history. * Linday Duguid, Times Literary Supplement, 2017 *
This book is a delight to read and provides a charming and fresh picture of Verona's daily life in past centuries. The author combines facts and travellers' accounts with masterly skill in a cohesive and lively framework. * Giandemetrio Marangoni, Professor, University of Verona, Italy *
Visitors to Verona brings together a fascinating collection of writings, offering all kinds of insights into the national characters of both the Italians and the British, how they changed over centuries of travel and tourism and how each reacted to the other, whether with prejudice and admiration, or both. It's an intriguing slice of history and rich food for thought. * Tim Parks, Author of Italian Neighbours and A Season with Verona *
This is a richly informative cornucopia of travel accounts of one of Italy's most fascinating cities. * Edward Chaney, Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Solent University, UK *
Visitors to Verona is a rich compendium of travellers' impressions of Verona in the 18th and 19th century. It is lively, amusing and extremely instructive as to the checkered history of the city [...] thus reminding us of how much Verona has endured. [...] Caroline Webb has done a service to the visitor who wants to appreciate more deeply all that Verona means and has meant to its citizens and guests. * Massimo Bacigalupo, Professor of American Literature, University of Genoa, Italy *