{"id":1274,"date":"2021-05-28T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/camposanto\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2021-06-10T19:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:43:56","slug":"pierre-jean-grosley-1718-1783-nouveaux-memoires-ou-observations-sur-litalie-et-sur-litaliens-1758-1764","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/camposanto\/pierre-jean-grosley-1718-1783-nouveaux-memoires-ou-observations-sur-litalie-et-sur-litaliens-1758-1764\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre-Jean Grosley (1718-1783), Nouveaux m\u00e9moires ou observations sur l\u2019Italie et sur l\u2019Italiens<\/em> (1758\/1764)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grosley, a local historian and magistrate of his native Troyes, became well-known through his two travel accounts. One is about his observations in London and the English people (<\/span><\/em>Londres. Ouvrage d\u2019un Fran\u00e7ois<\/span>); this publication was well received. The other publication that made him popular was his travel account of Italy, initially described as the work of \u201ctwo Swedish gentlemen.\u201d The book begins with recounting that the letters of recommendation brought by the Swedish gentlemen gave them access to places and to influential people. <\/span><\/em>Nouveau M\u00e9moires ou Observations sur l\u2019Italie<\/span> attempts to provide a comprehensive account of history, geography, and the art and antiquities of Italy. The characters and customs of Italy is another focus of this book. The section on Pisa describes various aspects of the city, from its history, climate, geography to its architecture. It is curious that Grosley writes that the earth in the Camposanto still has the \u201cvirtue of totally consuming a corpse in the span of twenty-four hours.\u201d Labat, who visited the cemetery in early eighteenth-century recorded that this property was long gone. \/ DJ<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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Source:<\/strong> Pierre-Jean Grosley, Nouveaux M\u00e9moires ou Observations sur L’italie et sur Les Italiens<\/em>, 3 vols. (London: Jean Nourse, 1765), 3:237-238.<\/span><\/p>\n

Translation:<\/strong> New observations on Italy and its inhabitants written in French by two Swedish gentlemen<\/em>, 2 vols, translated into English by Thomas Nugent. (London : L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1769), 2: 322.<\/span><\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

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\u00abCette magnificence se m\u00ealoit aux pratiques religieuses qui en paroissent le moins susceptibles. De ce genre, est le fameux cimeti\u00e8re, aussi construit en marbre, sur le plan de celui que j\u2019ai vu depuis en France \u00e0 Orl\u00e9ans. Le sol de ce cimeti\u00e8re, dans sa partie d\u00e9couverte, est enti\u00e9rement form\u00e9 de terres qu\u2019en 1224, les Pisans rapport\u00e8rent de la vall\u00e9e de Josaphat, pr\u00e8s J\u00e9rusalem, sur la flotte qu\u2019ils avoient fournie par l\u2019exp\u00e9dition de Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Barberousse. Cette terre conserve encore la vertu de consommer enti\u00e9rement les corps humains, dans l\u2019espace de 24 heures. Le Fossoyer m\u2019assura en avoir fait des \u00e9preuves r\u00e9it\u00e9r\u00e9es sur une soule d\u2019Allemands qui vinrent mourir \u00e0 Pise dans la guerre de 1733: La terra<\/em>, me disoit-il, logoravagli con le loro grosse pancie, in termine di duoi giorni<\/em>.\u00bb<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

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“This magnificence influenced even such religious observances, which seemed the most alien from it. Such is the famous burial-place, likewise built of marble, on the plan of that which I since saw in France at Orl\u00e9ans. The ground in the open part of this church-yard, is entirely of earth brought by the Pisans, in 1224, from the valley of Jehoshaphat, near Jerusalem, in the fleet which they had fitted out for Frederic Barbarossa\u2019s expedition. This earth still retains the virtue of totally consuming a corpse in the span of twenty-four hours. The grave-digger affirmed, that this he very well knew from repeated instances on multitudes of Germans, who died at Pisa in the war in 1733. La terra<\/em>, said he to me, logoravagli con le loro grosse pancie<\/em>, in termine di duoi giorni<\/em> (\u201cThe ground within two days made an end of them and their tun [large] bellies\u201d).”<\/p>\n

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