This volume traces the history of the Travel in Italy, one of the most fascinating cultural custom, from its origin placed at the end of the sixteenth century to the rise of organized tourism. Whether it is the natural philosopher, the student, the diplomat, the merchant, or the ancient antiquities collector, the traveler relies on diaries, memoirs, guides, true or fictitious, his experience as a pilgrim of secular knowledge.
And from this relevant amount of pages Brilli manages to tell how in the concrete was the trip in Italy, what were the places visited, what the relations with the "natives", what the expectations and reactions of "tourists": it results a very pleasant essay, with a lot of curious and even funny  news, written with elegant style and without pedantry.