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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... JOURNAL IN ITALY IN JANUARY, MAY, JUNE, AND SEPTEMBER, 1717; ALSO IN APRIL, 1718 First published in 1871 EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE JOURNAL IN ITALY Next to the juvenile Commonplace Book, this Journal of Berkeley's life in Italy, during his second visit to that country, contained in four small manuscript volumes, is the most important of the Berkeley MSS. that were first published in 1871, in my former edition of the Works. It contains a daily record of his movements in 1717, during most of January, and parts of May, June, and September; also on some days of April, 1718. He had left England for Italy in November, 1716, in company with young Ashe, his pupil, son of the Bishop of Clogher. The travellers seem to have reached Rome about the end of that year. The Journal begins on January 7, 1717, and records their sight-seeing in Rome during eighteen following days (pp. 225-48). The story is resumed in another volume, on May 5, when they were about to leave Naples for a tour in little frequented parts of Calabria, which lasted till June 9, when they returned to Naples. Of this excursion we have here the daily record. Memoranda of the road from Rome to Naples, undated, are recorded in another volume, followed by notes relating to the romantic Island of Ischia or Inarime, where, as he mentions in a letter to Pope which I have introduced, they passed ' three or four months' of that summer, and where, it seems by the Journal, they still were in September. The record of a three days' journey on the road from Naples to Rome in April, 1718, completes what has been preserved of Berkeley's Italian Journal. The latest date is April 13, 1718, when the travellers returned to Rome from Naples. We have got only fragments. The manuscript volumes which have disappeared might have info...