Rare In Folio From "journal Of Michel De Montaigne's Travel In Italy". Original Edition 1774

Original edition of Michel de Montaigne's "Travel Journal in Italy". The unpublished manuscript of this relationship, partly written in Montaigne's hand, was discovered by Abbé Prunis among the papers of the old Montaigne castle. On June 22, 1580, Montaigne left his castle, where in nine years he composed the first two books of the Essays. He first makes a point as far as Paris, then begins this journey which he undertook only to experience the most renowned baths against stone disease and to see new countries and new men. "He stops at Plombière, then via Mulhouse he reaches Basel from where he leaves for Baden. Following the Rhine, he admires the Schaffhausen Falls, stops at Constance and goes up to Ausburg. He passes Munich , crosses the Tyrol via Bolzano and Trento and arrives in Verona, in Venice, he inquires about everything and, especially, about the courtesans, he then visits Bologna, Tuscany, Florence, Siena, Lucca, Buonconvento, Viterbo and here he is. Rome, city where he learned that he had just been elected Mayor of Bordeaux, he then returned to Rome and from there he went back to Siena, Lucca, Sarzana, Plaisance, Pavia and only made a brief stay in Milan, the last one; November day, he returns home