The travel to Italy became a literary genre within the tradition of the Grand Tour. This tradition contributed to the composition of books of travels to Italy inside the English, French, German, North American, Russian, Dutch, etc. literatures. Although the European critical studies denied the incorporation of this cultural and literary phenomenon to the Spanish tradition, Spain do has a solid tradition in this kind of books of travels to Italy. Without doubt, its main example is Cartas familiares, written in the XVIIIth century by Juan Andrés. This article analyses the rhetorical and thematic importance of this book in the context of Western and Spanish.... [Llegir més ...]