Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Acknowledgements

pp.：  7 – 8

List of Abbreviations

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Plates, Figures, and Tables

pp.：  11 – 16

Colour Plates

pp.：  17 – 48

Introduction

pp.：  49 – 64

Part One The Making of a Diplomat and Orientalist

pp.：  65 – 66

Chapter One Family and Education

pp.：  67 – 71

Chapter Two Constantinople—City of Rumours

pp.：  72 – 91

Chapter Three Diplomacy and Intrigue

pp.：  92 – 109

Chapter Four Travel in the East

pp.：  110 – 127

Chapter Five War in Egypt

pp.：  128 – 137

Chapter Six Mixing East and West

pp.：  138 – 147

Chapter Seven “The Sabre in One Hand and the Koran in the Other”

pp.：  148 – 164

Part Two 1789–1801: Revolution and Turmoil

pp.：  165 – 166

Chapter Eight Return to Europe

pp.：  167 – 179

Chapter Nine To Constantinople and Back

pp.：  180 – 199

Chapter Ten “A Dangerous Man of Enlightenment”

pp.：  200 – 226

Chapter Eleven The Roman Republic 1798–99

pp.：  227 – 250

Chapter Twelve Final Year in Sweden

pp.：  251 – 260

Part Three Reading Egyptian: Deciphering the Rosetta Inscriptions

pp.：  261 – 262

Chapter Thirteen “I Am Alive Only in Paris”

pp.：  263 – 277

Chapter Fourteen Åkerblad’s Roseta Lettre

pp.：  278 – 298

Chapter Fifteen Geographic Competition

pp.：  299 – 311

Chapter Sixteen Egyptology and Orientalism

pp.：  312 – 336

Part Four The Napoleonic Wars and Restoration in Italy

pp.：  337 – 338

Chapter Seventeen Book Thefts, Inkblots and French Expropriations

pp.：  339 – 354

Chapter Eighteen Antiquarian in Rome

pp.：  355 – 380

Chapter Nineteen Salons and Belle Amiche

pp.：  381 – 388

Chapter Twenty Curses and Cabals

pp.：  389 – 403

Chapter Twenty-One Oriental Rome

pp.：  404 – 408

Chapter Twenty-Two Archaeology and Art

pp.：  409 – 428

Chapter Twenty-Three French Defeat

pp.：  429 – 439

Chapter Twenty-Four Digging with the Duchess of Devonshire

pp.：  440 – 454

Chapter Twenty-Five “Despised by Sweden and by Every Swede”

pp.：  455 – 460

Conclusion

pp.：  461 – 468

Bibliography

pp.：  469 – 494

Index

pp.：  495 – 503