People performing this activity hired assistants known as bear-leaders or cicerone.
People performing this activity hired assistants known as bear-leaders or cicerone. The Catholic priest Richard Laselle coined the term for this activity, whose practitioners formed most of the clientele for Thomas Cook's business. Pompeo Batoni specialized in portraits of men undertaking this activity. Several people who performed this activity together founded the Society of Dilettanti. William Beckford collected his experiences performing this activity in the book Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents. In later years, women began to participate in this activity with (*) chaperones, as Lucy Honeychurch does in E.M. Forster's A Room With a View. People undertaking this activity might budget in some study time at Heidelberg University or take a detour to the recently-unearthed ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, but usually they spent the largest chunk of their time in Rome and Venice. For 10 points, name this extensive vacation throughout Europe that many young aristocratic men undertook as a rite of passage in the 17th and 18th centuries.
People performing this activity hired assistants known as bear-leaders or cicerone.
Grand Tour [prompt to tourism or traveling to Europe or synonyms]