Italy by Rizzi-Zannoni
Italy by Rizzi-Zannoni.
This beautiful and accurate representation of Italy in 1806, made to a scale of approximately 1:248,000 is the same as the one published four years earlier by the Florentine bookseller Giuseppe Molini, with the only addition of the roads and the post offices. The map was made by the famous geographer A. Rizzi-Zannoni and then engraved on copper under Molini’s direction. The map representation is by Cassini with the Prime Meridian at Paris. The orography is in perspective with oblique light shading. The map includes eight graphic scales with Italian, French and German measurements. Particularly exquisite is the artistic cartouche on the bottom right-hand side. The following is the announcement of the publication of the map on the Gazzetta Universale in1802 which used to be published in Florence twice a week.
GAZZETTA UNIVERSALE N° 50 Tuesday 22nd June 1802, page 399
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Giuseppe Molini notifies the public that at the beginning of the month of July he will publish a beautiful and extremely accurate topographic map of Italy which, at his own expense and sparing no cost, he has had made by the famous geographer of S. M. Siciliana Signore Giov. Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni, and then engraved in two copperplates under his direction, of which a free “Manifesto Ragionato” will be released next week. The price of the map will be of two zucchini and it can be stated with absolute certainty that such a beautiful and accurate map has yet to be seen.
Sizes: 37"x49" -93x124 cm
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