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Digital Image: 1853 'Ginormous' Civelli Wall / Case Map of Italy
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Title
Gran Carta d'Italia.
1853 (dated) 98.5 x 78 in (250.19 x 198.12 cm) 1 : 555555
1853 (dated) 98.5 x 78 in (250.19 x 198.12 cm) 1 : 555555
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Cartographer S
Giuseppe Civelli (June 2, 1816 - March 7, 1882) was an Italian publisher, printer, geographer, and engineer active in Milan during the middle part of the 19th century. Civelli was born in Lombardy, Italy, apparently of modest origins. He established a printing house in Milan in 1840. Ten years later, having achieved considerable success with ambitious cartographic publications, he was able to open additional printing houses in Ancona and Turin. When the capital of Italy moved to Florence in 1865, he established a large printing house there to capitalize on government contracts. This process was later replicated in Rome. He died in Florence, but his successors continued to publish under his imprint, Stabilimento Tipografico già C. Civelli well into the 20th century. More by this mapmaker...
Francesco Valmagini (1783 - 1865) was a Milanese civil engineer, military topographer, and professor of geography at the Scuola Militare. He was a draftsman at the Milat War Depot in 1811. In the mid-19th century Valmagini was responsible for multiple large scale maps of Italy and Italian regions. Valmagini died in Venice in 1865. Learn More...
Clemente Folchi (November 14, 1780 - September 30, 1868) was a prominent Italian architect and engineer. Folchi was born in Rome. He initially studied mathematics and philosophy, but in 1800, apprenticed in architecture from 1800 under Andrea Vici (1743 - 1817). From 1806 became a member of the Commissione di Pesi e Misure and of the Académie des Lyncéens in Rome (equivalent of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts). In 1819, Barbara Vici the daughter of his teacher, Andrea Vici, became a widow and Folchi promptly married her. He leveraged the Vivi name to establish his own firm, Folchi Vici. In 1845, he oversaw the production of Giuseppe Civelli's enormous map of Italy. Folchi died in Rome at 88 years of age. Learn More...
Roberto Focosi (1806 - 1867) was an Italian painter and draftsman active in Milan in the first half of the 19th century. Focosi was born in Milan and studied from 1819 - 1827 at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Much of Focosi's work was related to the theater. Learn More...
Luigi Zuccoli (1815 - January 5, 1876) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born in Milian and mastered painting under Pelagio Palagi (1775 - 1860). He was well regarded as a painter, becoming well known for his domestic scenes - a trope popular in Northern Europe and England. He was laid low by illness and died in Milan in 1876. Learn More...
References
OCLC 557787044. Achille Bertarelli, A. and, Arrigoni, P., Le carte geografiche dell'Italia, no. 453.