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The Grand Tour (1700-1760)
Places: England, Scotland, Britain, Europe.
[Preliminary entry] The “Grand Tour” was an essential part of the education of many young English gentleman in the eighteenth century and generally involved travelling for up to three years and stopping at cultural centres such as Paris, Venice, Florence and Rome. As travel became easier in the course of the century the Tour often extended to Naples, Sicily and/or Greece and was on occasion undertaken by young women and married couples.
Typically the young gentleman was accompanied by a tutor, or ciceroni, with whom he would read the classics, such as Pliny and Cicero, to extend the sensibility and the understanding. Among the most famous of the many such tutors was Adam Smith who resigned his professorship at Glasgow in 1763 to act as tutor to young Duke of Buccleuch at an annual salary of £300 plus travelling expenses and a pension of £300 a year thereafter. Such a princely sum far exceeded his modest professorial stipend and the time spend abroad enabled Smith to begin writing The Wealth of Nations (1776).
