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With a Wall Map Of The Papal States In 1791 As Drawn By Giovanni Maria Cassini
CASSINI, Giovanni Maria /MOROZZO, Giuseppe. Analisi della Carta Corografica del patrimonio di S. Pietro corredata di alcune memorie storiche ed economiche. Rome, Stamperia Giunchiana, 1791.
Large 4to. [29.25 x 21 cm], (4) ff., LIX pp., 1 oversized folding map [93 x 126 cm, 80 x 116 to platemark]. Some minor foxing in margin of text and a bit on maps, but generally a fresh, appealing copy, very good.
$6,500 Rare first edition of this wall-map (with extensive accompanying text) of the Vatican territories, by the cartographer Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745-1824). Of cartographic, economic and political interest, 1791 was the year in which Pius VI condemned the actions of the National Assembly in Paris, announcing the papacy's official opposition to the French Revolution. As the anti-clerical element of the Revolution was always evident and a military invasion of Italy imminent - it would eventually result in the loss of significant territories to France during the Directorate and the occupation of Rome in 1797 -- the motive for commissioning the present map might well have been to establish a clear territorial claim to what was never, historically, French territory. Rather tellingly, the map has vignette portraits of the reigning Pope and St Peter, In the modern period, unlike the city of Rome, the geographical compass of the Papal States changed little, and there are accordingly few separately issued maps of it: the text mentions a 1696 map by Rossi and another by Lorelli from 1770. The text by the cleric Morozzo outlines the technical basis for the map, gives verbal descriptions of the principal cities, and contains assorted antiquarian material.
Cassini, evidently not related to the dynasty of cartographers and astronomers active in France, produced a number of atlases and separately issued chorographic and celestial maps.
Not in OCLC.
* * 1) BSB Munchen: 4 Bl, 59 S., 1 Kt.; BNF record: 8-LIX p.; 2) BL: pp. xiii. 47. pl. IV.; ICCU: XIII, 48 p., 2 c.di tav., 2 c.geogr. (2 copies at Roman libraries); SBBerlin: Mn 9375 XIII, 48 S., [4] gef. Bl. : Kt.; 4; not in Cremonini. Tooley, Dictionary of Mapmakers I.243 (Cassini).
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