Book ID: CBB505417815

L'occhio militare sul paesaggio. Il Trentino dei topografi napoleonici (1796-1813) (2023)

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Dai Prà, Elena (Author)
Valentina De Santi (Author)


Unicopli


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 131 pp.
Language: Italian

Questo volume offre al lettore l’immagine del Trentino che emerge dalla lettura delle opere redatte dagli ingegneri-topografi militari francesi, le cui attività si sono svolte in quest’area tra fine Settecento e primo Ottocento. In particolare si concentra sull’epoca napoleonica in quanto periodo di transizione per la geografia francese ed europea, durante il quale prende avvio un ripensamento del rapporto tra lo spazio e la sua rappresentazione. L’area del Trentino, tra le altre, fu oggetto di un’intensa opera ricognitiva, di cartografazione e di progettazione in quanto spazio strategico, fulcro dei piani geopolitici napoleonici. Questa attività fu all’origine di una vasta produzione di materiali (memorie descrittive, dizionari statistico-militari, carte a scala topografica e corografica, vedute di città, raffigurazioni di battaglie e plastici) che costituiscono una fonte preziosa per lo studio dei territori da loro percorsi. Con le loro relazioni, questi militari-viaggiatori tracciarono descrizioni statistiche e paesaggistiche tanto realistiche quanto pittoresche. [Abstract translated by DeepL.com/Translator: This is the abstract in English… This volume describes the image of Trentino (a region in northeastern Italy) that emerges from the works compiled by French military engineers-topographers, whose activities took place in this area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In particular, the book focuses on the Napoleonic era as a transitional period for French and European geography, during which a rethinking of the relationship between space and its representation began. The area of Trentino, among others, was the subject of intense reconnaissance, cartographic and planning work as a strategic space, the focus of Napoleonic geopolitical plans. This activity was the source of a vast production of materials (descriptive memoirs, statistical-military dictionaries, maps at topographic and chorographic scales, city views, depictions of battles, and plastic models) that constitute a valuable source for the study of these territories. Through their reports, these military-travelers drew statistical and landscape descriptions that were as realistic as they were picturesque.]

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Authors & Contributors
Luzzini, Francesco
Boscani Leoni, Simona
Valacchi, Maria Luisa
Valentina De Santi
Meike Knittel
Baumgartner, Sarah
Concepts
Geography
Travel; exploration
Cartography
Maps; atlases
Field notes
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
21st century
Places
Italy
Europe
United States
Switzerland
Russia
Latin America
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