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After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April of 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year. Together with his wife, he traveled across France to Nice. In the autumn of the next year, he visited Genoa, Rome{ Florence and other towns of Italy... Read Full Overview

"Traduced by malice, persecuted by fiction, abandoned by false patrons, and overwhelmed by the sense of a domestic calamity," Tobias Smollett set off on a journey through France and Italy to relieve his despair. While there, he wrote regularly to his friends, and the result is... Read Full Overview

Travels Through France And Italy is a travelogue written by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett. The book is a detailed account of Smollett's travels through France and Italy during the mid-18th century. Smollett's journey starts in Dover, England, and takes him through the French... Read Full Overview