...könnte N. von Gibbon entlehnt haben, der es allerdings in einem eher ironischen Ton verwendet: „The map, the description, the monuments of ancient Rome...and the student; and the footsteps of heroes, the relicts, not of superstition, but of empire, are devoutly visited by a new race ofpilgrims from the...

...the blame.2 As Gibbon finally laid down his pen in 1787, he noted that the monuments of the city were 'devoutly visited by a new race of pilgrims from the...remote, and once savage, countries of the North'. Why was it ruins they observed? Because of what he had in the preceding volumes described, in his own...

...upon Italy past, and not upon developments in contemporary Italy. Edward Gibbon stressed this appeal: 'the footsteps of heroes, the relics, not of superstition,...from the remote, and once savage, countries of the North'.1" In its lack of interest in contemporary developments, this tourism prefigured the obsession...