The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Fellows’ Letters from Distant Countries: New Science, the “Other” and Imperialism

Chapter 3 News from the Mainland: Mapping Physical and Intellectual Spaces Before the Grand Tour

Chapter 5 Southern Paths for Learned Travellers: The Discovery of Herculaneum and of the Neoclassical Mediterranean

Chapter 6 Images of Sublime Sicily

Chapter 7 From Letters to Memoirs and Travel Accounts: The Fellows as “Cultural Mediators”