Anthologies are an excellent means of stimulating interest and additional research into underexplored areas of art history, and in this regard Shearer West’s volume is right on target. It consists of nine essays on various aspects of the Italian cultural presence in transalpine Europe during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and is introduced by West’s informative and comprehensive essay “Visual Culture, Performance Culture and the Italian Diaspora in the Long Eighteenth Century.” West rightly...