A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765, Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental "Travels Through France and Italy". Sterne had met Smollett during his
Sentimental Journey (Ringo Starr album) release to promote it – and number 22 in the US. The album sold 500,000 copies in the US, within the first two weeks of release. Among his fellow Beatles, in an interview with BBC Radio's Johnny Moran, George Harrison described "Sentimental Journey" as "a great album" and "really nice". Conversely, John Lennon told "Rolling Stone" editor Jann Wenner in December 1970 that he was "embarrassed" by Starr's debut. Starr later said of "Sentimental Journey": "The great thing was that it got my solo career moving – not very fast, but just moving. It was like the first shovel of