FIRENZE

Speranza

Firenze was the most popular English stopover in the Grand Tour, thanks to Horace Mann. He hosted Gray and Walpole, who amassed Antino figures.

Patch, his guest, was satirised in "The Tribuna of the Uffizzi" (1779).

In this painting, a mob of prominent cognoscenti admire the Medici museum's wall-to-wall treasures.

Patch stands with Mann before a Tizian and points over his shoulder towards a Greek marble of two male wrestlers.