The book illustrates the precursor role of tourism for people with disabilities, as developing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, in modern tourism as we now know it. While focusing on Italy, it charts territory for debate among the international community of scholars.
Luciano Maffi is a Lecturer in History of Economic Thought at the University of Salento.
Martino Lorenzo Fagnani has obtained his PhD in Modern History at the University of Pavia.