“Two days we have passed with the ancients...”

WHAT: a collection of travel writings - non-fictional narratives (reports, diaries, letters) and guidebooks - about Italy written by English native authors and published between the country unification and the beginning of the 30's;

WHY: travel writings can support historical, social, ethnographic, and architectural research but they are also a source of curious information about life in Italy in the past;

HOW: texts have been collected from Project Gutenberg, TEI was automatically generated by GutenTag v0.1.4 and then manually checked and integrated.