![]() ![]() n un transunto del Trattato di Navigazione dello stesso autore. della Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano e corredato di note da C. Magaglianes negli anni 1519-1522 ora pubblicato per la prima volta, tratto da un codice MS. He published his edition of Pigafetta in 1800 under this most formidable title Primo viaggio intorno al globo terracqueo ossia ragguaglio della navigazione alle Indie orientali per la via d'occidente fatta dal cavaliere Antonio Pigafetta patrizio vicentino sulla squadra del capit. The three other extant manuscripts are all in French of which two are conserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, MSS 564, the last, viewed as the most "princely" of all, is conserved at the Beinecke Library of the Yale University Library, in the United States.Īmoretti lost no time in transcribing, editing, and annotating the manuscript. In 1797 Amoretti discovered at the Biblioteca the lost Italian manuscript of Pigafetta on Magellan's voyage, considered by most Magellan scholars as the oldest of four extant manuscripts and the most complete, although there is consensus among paleographic scholars this and all surviving codices are mere copies of an original or originals now deemed forever lost. Bernad mistakenly identified Amoretti as curator of the library. ![]() Filipino religious historiographer Miguel A. James Alexander Robertson wrongly identified him as the "prefect" or officer in charge of the Ambrosiana library, an error repeated by a few who have referred to Amoretti although as far as can be ascertained not one has detected prior to this article that Amoretti is the first to assert the Limasawa=Mazaua equation. It was as conservator at the library that the world of exploration history was turned on its head by this paleographer. ![]() He became a conservator, officially called "Dottori del Collegio Ambrosiano", in 1797 of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library) at Milan which is said to be the first public library in Europe having first opened its door to the public in 1609. Other works worth mention are Della raddomanzia ossia elettrometria animale ricerche fisiche e storiche (Milan, 1808), Elementi di elettrometria animale (Milan, 1816), and Viaggio da Milano ai tre laghi Maggiore, di lugano e di Como e ne' monti che li circondanoi (Milan, 1814).Ĭonservator, discoverer of Pigafetta Baldassare Oltrocchi gia Prefetto della stessa Biblioteca scritte dal suo successore Pietro Cighera (Milan, 1804) which is considered to be the first modern biography of Leonardo da Vinci. Among these Memorie storiche su la vita gli studi e le opera di Leonardo da Vinci si aggiungono le memorie intorno all vita del Ch. He was editor of the first scientific magazine published in Milan under the title-from 1775 until 1777- Scelta di opuscoli interessanti tradotti da varie lingue renamed in 1778 Opuscoli scelti until 1803, and further renamed in 1804 as Nuovi opusculi scelti. Here he became an active member of the scientific community. He translated scientific works, published or republished many rare books and manuscripts noteworthy of these being the extant codex of Antonio Pigafetta's relation of the first circumnavigation of the world by Ferdinand Magellan's fleet.Īmoretti, having fallen from the graces of the ecclesiastical order at Parma, was forced to relocate to Milan around 1771. To further his studies, he went to Pavia and Parma where he also taught ecclesiastical law.Īmoretti was an Encyclopedist whose mind encompassed theology, physics, geology, paleography, geography, and art history. He entered the Augustinian order in 1757. Carlo Amoretti (born 16 March 1741 in Oneglia, now part of Imperia – died 23 March 1816) was an ecclesiastic, scholar, writer, and scientist.
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