SOURCE: Bufalini, Robert. “Saverio Scrofani's Viaggio in Grecia and Late Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing.” Italica 74, no. 1 (spring 1997): 43-51.

In the following essay, Bufalini argues that by the late eighteenth century, travel narratives no longer tried to combine literary experience with scientific inquiry as they had earlier in the century, citing Saverio Scrofani's 1799 Viaggio in Grecia as an example of the growing separation of science and literature in travel writing.

The Viaggio in Grecia (1799) of Saverio Scrofani had quick and considerable success, as the fact that it was translated into French by Blanvillain in 1801 and from French into German that same year, and even into Swedish in 1806, would attest.¹ “Avventuriero” as well as economist, Scrofani was keen at judging what his contemporaries wanted and at providing them with it; so much so that his Viaggio and its accompanying Relazione su lo stato attuale dell'agricoltura e del commercio della Morea can...