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Title of the work: Itinerary, or a new description of the principal travels of Italy. It was the most famous and widespread guide for travelers of the Grand Tour in Italy during the entire 17th and 18th centuries. This edition dedicated to Abbot Ruberto Papafava ("Dedicated to the Illustriss. et Reverendiss. Sign. Abbate Ruberto Papafava Nobile Veneto"), corresponds to the Padua editions of the mid-seventeenth century, in particular those published in the years 1654, 1659 or 1675. Publisher and Place: Printed in Padua by Mattio Cadorini (or for Cadorino) Copperplate engraving in black and white, excellent inking and intaglio print on laid paper, minimal margins, margin opposite to the spine showing wear, browning, oxidation and yellowing; all as shown in the photo. Good condition, slight traces of foxing and browning. Editorial crease and visible signs of binding. insured shipping via Bartolini/DPD courier. To avail of the insurance coverage, any damage to the neck/neck area must be disputed and reported to the courier at the time of delivery. Otherwise, the insurance reimbursement procedure cannot be activated. The “Itinerario, overo nuova descrittione de' viaggi principali d'Italia” is a famous travel guide of the seventeenth century, originally written in Latin by Francesco Schoto (Schott Franz) and subsequently translated into Italian, augmented and published in various editions between 1629 and 1670 (e.g., after Francesco Bolzetta or Gio. Pietro Brigonci). The book provides a detailed description of travels in Italy, enriched with city plans, bird’s-eye views and maps, describing the most notable sights. With the name Mattio Cadorin (also known as Matteo Cadorin or with the pseudonym Bolzetta) is mainly referred to an important Italian editor, printer and bookseller of the seventeenth century. Franz Schott (1548-1622) anglicized as Francesco Scoto Franz Schott, in Latin Franciscus Schottus, anglicized Francesco Scoto (Antwerp, 1548 – 1622), was a Flemish jurist and traveler. Brother of Andreas Schott, he was the author of a guide for pilgrims bound for Italy for the Jubilee of 1600: the Itinerarium nobiliorum Italiae regionum, urbium, oppidorum, et locorum. The work achieved enormous success and was translated into Italian, English, French and reprinted up to the eighteenth century. Little is known about the life of jurist Franz Schott, except that he came from Antwerp and studied law. As noted, in 1600 Schott published the first edition of the work written in Latin with the title Itinerarii Italiae at Jeans Moretus of Antwerp, with the aim of providing readers, most of whom were pilgrims traveling to Italy and especially Rome for the Holy Year, with a guide containing practical information to move about easily. In 1601, by the hands of the two Padua editors Francesco Bolzetta and Pietro Bertelli, the second Latin edition of Franz Schott’s Itinerario d’Italia was published in Italy, in Vicenza; the work was enriched with maps of some Italian cities and the text, by decision of the editors, was expanded with the intervention of Geronimo Capugnano, a Dominican friar from Bologna. A later Latin edition was published by Pietro Bertelli in 1610 in Vicenza. In 1620 the same author Franz Schott, driven by the immediate success of his Itinerario, attempted publication of another Latin edition of the same, extending it to Germany. In 1625, after the death of Franz Schott, on the occasion of a new jubilee year his brother Andreas oversaw a new Latin edition of the Itinerarium, which was followed by the edition published in Amsterdam in 1655 by the great geographical publisher Jodocus Jansson. This last edition, erroneously attributed to Andreas Schott, included eighteen city maps of Italy, largely derived from Joannes Jansson’s atlas, Illustrium Italiane urbium tabulae, published in 1657, whose plates had, however, already appeared in 1626 in the Nova et accurata Italiane descriptio. Particularly for the Italian editions, the first Italian edition of Schott’s Itinerario d’Italia was published in Venice in 1610 by the editor Francesco Bolzetta. It was based on the 1601 Latin text but the title incorrectly credited the work to Andreas Schott. From this first Italian edition all subsequent Italian editions descended. Through Francesco Bolzetta the Vicentine editions appeared in 1615, 1622 and 1638 and the Padua editions in 1629, 1642 and 1649. In all these Italian editions the error of attribution of authorship to Andreas Schott, rather than to his brother Franz, was maintained. In Rome the Itinerario of Schott was published for the first time in 1650 by the editor Filippo De Rossi, based on the 1649 text. From this edition on, the attribution of the guide to its rightful author, Franz Schott, was restored. University of Genoa
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