Italy seen by Czech authors of travel books before the First World War

This thesis is devoted to the topic of representation of Italy in the travel literature by Czech writers in the period before the First World War. The corpus contains the following lyrics: Rome 1906-1907 by Josef Svatopluk Machar, Memories from a journey to Italy by Josef Stejskal and Summer in Italy by Jaroslav Hilbert. In the first part I will introduce and describe historical and cultural development of Italy and also the fact how the Czech lands looked up on Risorgimento. Then I describe the individual authors, their literary works and selected corpus works. I define the circumstances of the origin of the text and find the answer to the question why cited authors focused just on Italy. In the second part I analyse the selected works thematically, I create a synthesis and in conclusion I assess, how in the period before First World War, the Czech society was looking up on Italy