Excerpt from The English in Italy, Vol. 1 of 3
As the author has thought it neces sary to preface the work with this sort of protest, he may as well take the opportunity of adding, that he lays claim to no merit of invention for the incidents contained in the following pages, they being almost altogether the fruits of observation, during a residence of several years in the Peninsula. The pencil of the writer, he declares, has been confined to sketches from the lab;amd.fl‘hmmfimafionluwmuhauzand there superadded her colouring, it has merely been to the decking forth, not to the superseding of truth.
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