James Boswell, The Journal of his Italian and French Travels, 1765–1766

John Eglin is Professor of History at the University of Montana. He is author of The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (2023), The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath (2005) and Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797 (2001).

• AcknowledgementsEditorial ProceduresCue Titles and AbbreviationsIntroductionThe JournalAppendix 1: Foreign Tour PapersAppendix 2: Expense AccountsIndex

A new, uncensored and impeccably introduced and annotated edition of Boswell’s journals in Italy and France. It is valuable not just for what it reveals about the writer and his travels, but also for its information on European identities, religion, sexuality and the treatment of women in the eighteenth century.