This scholarly edition of the Anton von Zach map will be published in 2005, to mark the 200th anniversary of its completion in 1805: an invaluable source of information about the configuration and life of an area of about forty thousand square kilometres which corresponds, with partial historical border differences, to the present Italian regions of the Veneto and Friuli. The Topographisch-geometrische Kriegskarte von dem Herzogthum Venedig (Topographic-geometrical military map of the Duchy of Venice), now conserved in the Kriegsarchiv of Vienna, was produced for the Austrian General Staff by a group of topographers coordinated by Staff Officer Anton von Zach. The edition includes all 120 of the sheets at the original scale (1: 28.800 ca.), a transcription of the 922 manuscript military description papers (Militärische Beschreibungen) together with an Italian translation, a German/Italian glossary of about four hundred technical terms and an index of the thousands of place names mentioned. The work as a whole constitutes an essential source of knowledge about the history and geography of North-East Italy in the troubled transition phase connecting the Republic of Venice to the period of Hapsburg domination. Five years of research and a further two years of editing have led to a publication on profitable purchase terms which is indispensable in several fields. Scientific and professional spheres have acquired new references for historians and geographers, for cartographers and topographers, for town planners and landscape experts. Institutions at European, national and local levels, especially regions, provinces and municipalities, now have new means of identifying changes and environmental and territorial layering over a period of two centuries. And the community in general is enriched because the work constitutes documentary evidence of places, symbols and names that now re-emerge as distinctive components of our common heritage in the construction of Europe.
Kriegskarte 1798-1805: Il Ducato di Venezia nella carta di Anton von Zach/Das Herzogtum Venedig auf der Karte Antons von Zach
FOSSALUZZA, Cristina;
2005-01-01
Abstract
This scholarly edition of the Anton von Zach map will be published in 2005, to mark the 200th anniversary of its completion in 1805: an invaluable source of information about the configuration and life of an area of about forty thousand square kilometres which corresponds, with partial historical border differences, to the present Italian regions of the Veneto and Friuli. The Topographisch-geometrische Kriegskarte von dem Herzogthum Venedig (Topographic-geometrical military map of the Duchy of Venice), now conserved in the Kriegsarchiv of Vienna, was produced for the Austrian General Staff by a group of topographers coordinated by Staff Officer Anton von Zach. The edition includes all 120 of the sheets at the original scale (1: 28.800 ca.), a transcription of the 922 manuscript military description papers (Militärische Beschreibungen) together with an Italian translation, a German/Italian glossary of about four hundred technical terms and an index of the thousands of place names mentioned. The work as a whole constitutes an essential source of knowledge about the history and geography of North-East Italy in the troubled transition phase connecting the Republic of Venice to the period of Hapsburg domination. Five years of research and a further two years of editing have led to a publication on profitable purchase terms which is indispensable in several fields. Scientific and professional spheres have acquired new references for historians and geographers, for cartographers and topographers, for town planners and landscape experts. Institutions at European, national and local levels, especially regions, provinces and municipalities, now have new means of identifying changes and environmental and territorial layering over a period of two centuries. And the community in general is enriched because the work constitutes documentary evidence of places, symbols and names that now re-emerge as distinctive components of our common heritage in the construction of Europe.
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