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Dear Tony, please, before getting to completion the annual "Chronicle" in Imago Mundi have a look at the last number of the Newsletter (no. 41, September 2011) by the BIMCC (Brussel International Map Collector Circle), where the Honorary President of the Circle Wulf Bodenstein announces the birth, reviews the publications and lists the activities of the Italian Map Collector Society named after Roberto Almagià and titled "Associazione Italiana Collezionisti di Cartografia Antica". The "Associazione" was founded by seven Italian Map Collectors* who joined in Pavia in a frozen and wet evening of March 2006. As you may detect from the activities and the number of publications (four catalogues of exhibitions and a Cartobibliographical volume devoted to Benedetto Marzolla, 236 pages) it is among the most lively Map Societies: five meetings, each devoted to a chosen theme, with conferences, exhibitions and catalogues. The meeting in 2010 was dedicated to the Decorative Apparatus in cartography and had among the speakers Peter Barber, Marica Milanesi and Lucia Nuti. Our last activity has been to arrange an exhibition, with catalog, on 59 maps of Italy since 1482 to 1861 in the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unification (Milan, April 7th - May 7th and Caserta, September 14th - 2nd October). At the present, since June 2010, I am the President of the "Associazione", and it is certainly my fault to have not paid the due attention to inform the Community of its birth and its activities. The presentation (4 pages !) by Wulf Bodenstein makes justice of this horrible amnesia. Unfortunately, meetings and publications are in Italian and I know - very sadly - that a lot of people and scholars too ignore Italian and are not able even to read it. It is really a pity. vladimiro *the founders are, in alphabetical order: Giorgio Aliprandi (Milano), Lucio Clementi (Ancona), Enzo Fusari (Macerata), Emiiio Moreschi (Bergamo), Laura Tassi (Milano), Vladimiro Valerio (Napoli), Antonio Volpini (Corridonia, Macerata) and the Notaio Roberto Borri (Pavia), who could not sign being the Officer who registered the Act. Il giorno 20/ott/2011, alle ore 10.31, Tony Campbell ha scritto: > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the > whole list) > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > > I am sure many will welcome the Philadelphia Map Society as the latest > addition to the growing body of such groups around the world. > > JB's forwarded message referred to the Society's 'inaugural year'. Perhaps I > have missed the announcement, but I had not previously heard of this > development. Nor, it seems, were the details forwarded to James Speed > Hensinger for his comprehensive list of 'Map Societies Around the World': > > http://www.maphist.nl/mapsoc/index.html > > I do hope that all those who subscribe to this list will make a point of > alerting us to significant developments of this sort. Too often, we learn > from other sources. Sometimes, for reasons I cannot understand, matters of > historical interest have to be forwarded to us from, for example, Maps-L. The > obvious solution is for such announcements to be sent to all the relevant > lists. > > I will, as usual, be adding a note about this to the annual 'Chronicle' in > Imago Mundi. Though I shall need to have the date of its foundation, as will > James Speed Hensinger. > > Anyway, a warm welcome to our Philadelphia colleagues. > > Tony Campbell > > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
