Rome, Naples and Florence is Stendhal's travel book on Italy, a country he loved. Written in the form of a traveller's journal, it records visits to cities, theatres, galleries and drawing rooms, with comments on music, painting, architecture and manners. Stendhal mixes description, anecdote and opinion, and is as interested in the temperament of the people as in the monuments. The book helped make him known as a writer, and it shows the enthusiasm for Italy that colours his later novels.