4 vols. 8vo. - Barretti's Account of
the Manners and Customs of Italy. 1770. 2 vols. 8vo. - These works are
noticed principally because they afford a curious and instructive proof of
the very different views which may be taken of the same objects, according
to the extent and accuracy of the knowledge, and the preconceived opinions
and feelings of the observer. Barretti's work is certainly more accurate
than that of Sharp, but in opposing him, he has sometimes gone into the
opposite extreme: from comparing both, perhaps the reality may often be
extracted. Manners and national character are their chief topics.
390. View of Society and Manners in Italy. By Dr. Moore, 1781. 2 vols.
8vo. - The peculiar felicity of description and style with which this author
paints manners, render these travels, as well as his others, extremely
interesting.
391. Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanoes. By
Sir W. Hamilton. Naples, 1776. 2 vols. folio. - London, 1772. 8vo.
392. Travels in the Two Sicilies. By H. Swinburne, 1790. 4 vols. 8vo.
393. Denon's Travels in Sicily and Malta, translated from the French.
8vo. - Denon, an artist, accompanied Swinburne in his excursions to the
vicinity of Naples, and into Sicily. These works are historical,
geographical, and antiquarian, but heavily written.
394. Spallanzani's Travels in the Two Sicilies, and some parts of the
Apennines, 1798. 4 vols. 8vo. - Translated from the Italian. Natural history
forms the principal subject of these volumes, which are worthy of the
author, who was esteemed one of the first natural historians of His age.
