John Ruskin and His ‘Witch of Sicily’, Amy Yule

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dc.contributor.author	Wildman Stephen
dc.title	John Ruskin and His ‘Witch of Sicily’, Amy Yule
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dc.description.abstract	John Ruskin’s visit to Sicily in the spring of 1874 is largely neglected in the main biographies and generally regarded as a mere adjunct to the more significant purpose of his trip to Italy in that year, studying the work of Botticelli and other Old Masters first in Florence and at Assisi, and then in Rome. The ten-day break from study between 20 and 30 April, apparently at the casual invitation of slight acquaintances, Colonel and Mrs Henry Yule, then living in Palermo, has tended to be seen as an unimportant interlude, even though it does represent the furthest point in Europe (and therefore the world) to which he ever travelled. Recent research has uncovered a good deal more about his hosts in Palermo, and especially their daughter Amy, who begins to emerge as one of the forgotten, but not least important, figures in Ruskin’s later personal life.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-15
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5/014
dc.identifier.issn	2724-6620
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8507
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-488-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-487-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	Palermo
dc.subject	Palermo
dc.subject	Sicily
dc.subject	Sicily
dc.subject	Travel
dc.subject	Travel
dc.subject	Yule family
dc.subject	Yule family

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John Ruskin and His ‘Witch of Sicily’, Amy Yule

Stephen Wildman Emeritus Professor of History of Art, Lancaster University, UK

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John Ruskin’s visit to Sicily in the spring of 1874 is largely neglected in the main biographies and generally regarded as a mere adjunct to the more significant purpose of his trip to Italy in that year, studying the work of Botticelli and other Old Masters first in Florence and at Assisi, and then in Rome. The ten-day break from study between 20 and 30 April, apparently at the casual invitation of slight acquaintances, Colonel and Mrs Henry Yule, then living in Palermo, has tended to be seen as an unimportant interlude, even though it does represent the furthest point in Europe (and therefore the world) to which he ever travelled. Recent research has uncovered a good deal more about his hosts in Palermo, and especially their daughter Amy, who begins to emerge as one of the forgotten, but not least important, figures in Ruskin’s later personal life.

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Keywords: Travel • Yule family • Palermo • John Ruskin • Sicily

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