Henry Crabb Robinson, itinerary of his tour of Italy with William Wordsworth, September 1837.

Itinerary

Of a tour in Italy

1837

performed by W. W. and H. C. R.

March 19th  Steam boat to Calais.

20th Posting to Samer

21st ------------ Granvilliers [sic]

22d ----- thro’ Beauvais to Paris.  NB: Feuillet.

26th ------------ Fontainebleau

27th ---- thro’ Nemours to Cosne

28th --------- to Moulins

29th ----------- Tarare

30th ----------- Lyons

31st thro’ Vienne to Tain

April 1st thro’ Valence to Orange     The Arch

2d   to Avignon – Excursion to Vaucluse & back to A:

3d by Pont du Gard to Nismes

5th by St Remi to Marseilles

7th to Toulon La Croix de Malta

8th to Luc.

9th by Frejus to Cannes             good inn

10th Nice Hot des Etrangers

12th thro’ Mentone to St Remo

13th thro’ Tina le to Savona

14th Genoa Hot de Londres (Cox from Philadelphia)

17th to Chiavari

18th thro Sestri to Spezzia

19th by Carrara to Massa

20th to Lucca

21st to Pisa

22d to Volterra by Vellurino horses

23d to Castiglionaccio – Posting to Siena

24th to Radicofani  bad inn

25th by Aquapendente & lake of Bolsena to Viterbo (bad inn)

26th ROME Theed (Sculptor) Miss Mackenzie the Colliers Dr

  Carlyle Hare Lady Westmoreland Bunsen Kastner Gibson < > Ticknors

May 13th Excursion to Tivoli & back with Dr Carlyle

17) Excursion to Albano & back with Miss Mackenzie, including Monte

21) Cavo, Nemi Ariccia &c

23d Posting to Terni

24th ------ after visiting the Falls – to Spoleto

25th ------ to Perugia (walk to Cortona)

26th ------ to Arezzo

27th with Vellutino horses to Bibiena & Ride to Laverna

28th Ride to Bibiena – Vells h[orse]s to Musclea ride to Camaldoli

29th To Musclea & Ponte Sieva Vells horses

30th Posting to Florence     after excursion to Val Ambroso  Mayer, Niccolini, Hare, Mad. Landor

June 6th Posting to Bologna     Hot: Suesa

8th ---------  Parma

9th --------- thro Piacenza to Milan

11th Excursion to the Certosa & back

12th Excursion to the lake of Como and back – The Ticknors

13th Posting to Bergamo

14th To Pallazuola & Iseo

15th Excursion on lake to Rovere & back by night

16 To Brescia & Desenzano

17th On the Lake Garda to Riva

19th On lake to Desenzano – Posting to Verona

20th to Vicenza

21st to Padua

22d to Mestre and Venice   The Ticknors

28th to Mestre, Conegliano & Logerone [sic]

29th Thro’ Valley of Piave & over mounts to Sillian

30th ---- to Spittal (Carinthia)

July 1st By Vale of Liessen [sic] over Katzenberg to Tweng

2d By Taurin mountain thro’ Werfen & Galling to Hallein

3d Excursion to Konigstein & back

4th Posting to Salzburg

6th                  Ischl.

(Excursion in Salzkammer Gut)

7th Walk to Weissbach

8th Row on lakes Aller & Mond Sea to Schiefling, drive to Gemund

9th Drive to Traunfalls & back

10 Row to Ebensee walk & ride to Ischl drive to Aussee

11th Excursion to three lakes & back And drive to Halstadt

13th Row on lake, drive to Ischl posting to St Gilgen

14 Posting tho’ Salzburg to Frauenstein

15th ---- thro’ Hohenheim to Griesbach

16 ---- to Tegernsee & Holzkirken

17th ---- to Munich The Ticknors Oldenberg Dr Thompson Brentano

21st To Augsburg

22d Ulm

23d Stutgard

24th Besigheim

25th Heidelberg – Mrs Benecke Mrs Niess, Schlosser

28th thro’ Manheim & Wurms to Mayence

29th to Coblenz

30th thro’ Andernach & after Excursion to Lakensee & back to Bonn

31st thro Cologne to Aix la Chapelle

August 1st to Louvain

2d ---- Brussels

3d On rail road to Antwerp & back by Malines

4th ---- to Lenze

5th thro Lille to Cassel

6th to Calais

On steam boat  -- return to LONDON

[on back is written: ‘Directions for Continental Tourists’]

Text: WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/1, Wordworth Trust and Museum, Grasmere.