Basier, Isaac. Travels through France, Italy, Naples, Sicily, Malta ...

Folger bibliographic ID: 128977
Folger call number: V.a.428
Folger holdings ID: 280339
Accession Number: MS Add 420

The writer of this diary was one of a company that embarked at Rye. He belonged to "the Religion" i.e. was not a Catholic, and was a royalist in his sympathies; he was chiefly interested in the antiquities of the places he saw. In his reports he mentions a few expatriate Englishmen whom he met and includes: Breve regguaglie delle cose piu notabile del regno di Sicilia, p. 293, and Della maniera che vienne governata la Sicilia, p. 306. Also includes 1 clipping

General notes

[2], 14, [2], 15-410, [1] p Index to p. 1-51 only, in a later hand Malcolm Letts MS Formerly Folger MS Add 420 For the identification of the writer as Isaac Basire, see International Currents in Educational Ideas and Practices: Proceedings of the 1987 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society, eds. P. Cunningham and C. Brock, 1988, pp. 17-18, n. 2. Edited by L. Monga and C. Hassel, 1987 Also available on microfilm

Publications

Travels through France and Italy (1647-1649) / introduction and notes by Luigi Monga ; text established by Luigi Monga and Chris Hassel. Geneve : Slatkine; Moncalieri : Centro interuniversitario di ricerche sul "viaggio in Italia", 1987

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. Consuming Splendor

Extended title: Travels through France, Italy, Naples, Sicily, Malta ... 1647-1649

Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676 France Italy Sicily (Italy) Malta Naples (Italy)

author: Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676
subject: Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676
former owner: Letts, Malcolm