1. Second Italian journey: Genoa

    · Genoa, Liguria, Italy

    Balzac stopped in Genoa during his 1837 Italian journey, where he met the merchant connected with his later Sardinian mining scheme. The wider passage dates the Italian journey from March to 3 May 1837, but not the Genoa stop precisely.

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