Author: Michel De Montaigne

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780428366704

Excerpt from The Journal of Montaigne's Travels in Italy by Way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Vol. 1 of 3 A translation of the Journal was made by W. Hazlitt in 1842 and annexed to his edition of Cotton's Essays. In a recent reprint of the Essays and of all the extant Letters, Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, in an intro duction, remarks, as a reason for not in cluding the Journal, that it is all in the third person, and was dictated by Montaigne to his secretary, being unaware, apparently, that more than half of it was written in the first person by Montaigne himself. The portions of the Journal which deal with Montaigne's sojourn at the baths of Lucca are full of details of the symptoms of the malady which troubled him, and of the results of the curative treatment. In these it has been thought permissible to abbreviate some passages and to omit others entirely, seeing that they are at the same time valueless and unpleasant. But not a word which refers to any matter of general interest has been repressed; uninteresting medical details alone have been left out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.