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Richard Lassels (in France, Lascelles) was a Roman Catholic priest and a travel writer. Lassels was a tutor to several of the English nobility and traveled through Italy five times. He is best known for his work, The Voyage of Italy, published posthumously in Paris in 1670 and then in London. In his book, he asserts that any truly serious student of architecture, antiquity and the arts must travel through France and Italy, suggesting that all "young lords" make what he referred to as the "Grand Tour" in order to understand the realities of the world. In his introduction he listed four areas in which travel will benefit them: the intellectual, the social, the political and the ethical (by drawing moral instruction from all that the traveller ...more

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