Strenua nos exercet inertia: navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis, hic est. The following observations on Italy, and on Italian manners, occurred in the course of the same Tour in which those contained in a book lately published, entitled _A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany_, were made. All who have read that book will perceive, at first sight, that the present work is a continuation of the former; but to those who have not, it was thought necessary to account for the abrupt manner in which the following Letters begin.…
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