This text is an account, based on a series of letters written to his friend and biographer, John Forster, of the year Dickens spent in Italy in the mid 1840s. T... » 

This text is an account, based on a series of letters written to his friend and biographer, John Forster, of the year Dickens spent in Italy in the mid 1840s. The book gives his first impressions of Italy: art and antiquities, landscape, and the Roman Catholic church and its ceremonies. «