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Dear all, though close to the opening, I send you the news about the inauguration of an exhibition titled L'Italia prima dell'Italia Carte geografiche e topografiche dell’Italia dal 1478 al 1861 (Italy before Italy - Geographical and Large Scale Maps of Italy since 1478 to 1861). The exhibition, organized by the Associazione "Roberto Almagià" (Italian map collectors Society), is one of the events of the150th year from the Unity of Italy, on the behalf of the National Commission for the Celebration, with the support of the Società Geografica Italiana (Italian Geographical Society) Centro Studi per gli Studi Storico-Geografici (Center for the Historic-Geographical Studies) and the University IUAV of Venice. The exhibition will be held in Milano, hosted by the Centro Studi Manzoniani in the House of Manzoni (Via Morone, 1, close to La Scala) since 7th April (date of the inauguration) to 7th May 2011. In the exhibition (the first on Maps of Italy ever made) will be on display 59 maps (some multi sheets and wall maps) from the Roman Edition (1478) of Ptolemy's Geography to large scale mapping of Italian States in the XIX century. A catalog, edited by the President of the Italian Map Collectors Association, has been published (158 pages printed in color). Among rare and unique items the Rosselli 1492 map of italy (CAMPBELL 1987, pp. 135, 136) a so far unrecorded map of Italy by De Jode dated 1570 (only known the 1578 ed.), the Map of Italy by Greuter in 12 sheets (Bologna edition of 1676, BELLUCCI-VALERIO 2007, pp. 78, 79), a so far unknown four sheets map by Petrini (Naples 1702). All from Associated Collectors. With the best of wishes. vladimiro WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Vladimiro Valerio Professore Ordinario di Geometria Proiettiva e Descrittiva Office: Dipartimento di Storia della Architettura San Polo 2468 - Palazzo Badoer 30125 Venezia tel. + 39 041 2571418, fax 041 719044 e-mail [email protected] mobile +39 335 403807 home: Calle Giustina Renier Michiel, 2/a 30141 Venezia - Murano tel. +39 041 5275666 WWWWWWWWW PER ASPERA AD ASTRA WWWWWWWWW
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