This paper studies Finnish travellers’ descriptions of Italians in the travelogues of the second half of the 19^th century. The analysis is conducted from an imagological point of view, that is, it concentrates on examining the literary expressions of the images of the Italian ‘Other’ in relation to the Finnish ‘Self’. By doing so, the analysis forms a link to the previous imagological studies regarding travel literature that has as its object Italy and Italians.