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Preliminary elaboration of a Permeability Map of Italy starting from the information of the Lithological Map of Italy
Il Servizio Geologico d’Italia di ISPRA, in qualità di Organo Cartografico dello Stato e quindi depositario di una notevole mole di informazioni geologiche territoriali, organizzate anche in banche dati, cura la produzione di varia cartografia geologica e geotematica, in buona parte consultabile on-line dal Portale del Servizio Geologico (http://sgi.isprambiente.it/ geoportal) [...].
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The activity plan for the realization of the Hydrogeological Map of Italy at 1:500,000 scale
[Article in Italian] Le attività avviate per la realizzazione di una Carta Idrogeologica d’Italia alla scala 1:500.000
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Making an Impression: The Display of Maps in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Homes
Sixteenth-century Venetians decorated the walls of their homes with maps as well as pictures of all kinds. A large corpus of inventories of household goods records the location of these wall decorations and, together with books offering advice on the display of maps, provides evidence that maps were intentionally placed in the most public spaces in the house. The manuals also confirm the impression gained from the inventories that the maps were valued for their ability to construct a public identity for the owner. They were versatile objects that could demonstrate that the owner was a cultured, cosmopolitan man educated about the world, reinforce his professional or trade standing, or enhance a military persona, all to the glorification of the family name.
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Benedetto Bordon, Miniator, and cartography in early sixteenth-century venice
This paper surveys the career of Benedetto Bordon as a miniaturist, designer of woodcuts, and cartographer. Although from Padua, Bordon worked primarily in Venice where he illuminated religious and classical texts and official ducal documents destined for Venetian noblemen. The writer argues that Bordon designed woodcut illustrations for books printed by Aldus Manutius and others, in addition to the woodcut maps in his 1528 book on islands in the MediteiTanean, Atlantic, and Caribbean. Bordon's lost world map of 1508 is discussed in relation to the map-making activities of Francesco Rosselli, the Florentine miniaturist and engraver who was in Venice in 1504 and 1508, and in relation to a circle of Venetian scholars and patricians interested in Ptolemy's Cosmographia and in the mapping of the New World.
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Post-Tridentine 'Geographia Sacra'. The Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in the Vatican Palace
In the Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in the Vatican Palace (1581) regional maps of Italy are combined with scenes of episodes from church history. A number of cartographic questions are posed concerning authorship, execution and sources, and another set of issues is raised concerning the purpose and relevance of the murals in sixteenth-century religious debates. In this paper, the map murals are examined in the context of Renaissance surveying practice through a new scrutinity of archival evidence on the Gallery's planner and supervisor, the Dominican Ignazio Danti. The murals are then considered in the context of post-Tridentine religious debate and explained as an attempt to accommodate Protestant use of cartography to the advantage of the Catholic Church.
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