Italy - Tivoli; Francesco Scoto (1548/ 1622)

Title of the work: Itinerario, overo nova descrittione de' viaggi principali d'Italia. It was the most famous and widespread travel guide for Grand Tour travelers in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries. This edition dedicated to Abate Ruberto Papafava ("Dedicato all'Illustriss. et Reverendiss. Sig. Abbate Ruberto Papafava Nobile Veneto"), corresponds to the Padovan editions from the mid-17th century, in particular those published in 1654, 1659, or 1675. Publisher and Place: Printed in Padua by Mattio Cadorini (or for Cadorino). Engraving on copper in black and white, excellent inking and intaglio print on laid paper, minimal margins, margin opposite the binding showing wear, spot in the center, all as in the photo. Good condition, slight traces of foxing and browning. Editorial crease and visible binding marks. insured shipping via Bartolini/DPD courier. To enjoy the insurance coverage, any damages to the neck must be contested and reported to the courier at delivery. Otherwise, the insurance reimbursement procedure cannot be activated. The “Itinerario, overo nuova descrittione de' viaggi principali d'Italia” is a famous 17th-century travel guide, originally written in Latin by Francesco Scoto (Schott Franz) and subsequently translated into Italian, expanded and published in various editions between 1629 and 1670 (e.g., around Francesco Bolzetta or Gio. Pietro Brigonci). The book provides a detailed description of travels in Italy, enriched with city plans, aerial views, and maps, describing the most notable sights to see. With the name Mattio Cadorin (also known as Matteo Cadorin or under the pseudonym Bolzetta) is primarily referred to an important Italian publisher, printer and bookseller of the 17th century. Franz Schott (1548-1622) anglicized (Francesco Scoto) Franz Schott, in Latin Franciscus Schottus, Italianized Francesco Scoto (Antwerp, 1548–1622), was a jurist and Flemish traveler. Brother of Andreas Schott, he was the author of a guide for pilgrims bound for Italy for the Jubilee of 1600: l'Itinerarium nobiliorum Italiae regionum, urbium, oppidorum, et locorum. The work achieved enormous success and was translated into Italian, English, French and reprinted until the eighteenth century. Little is known about the life of jurist Franz Schott, except that he came from Antwerp and studied law. As noted, in 1600 Schott published the first edition of the Latin work under the title Itinerarii Italiae at Jeans Moretus in Antwerp, with the aim of providing readers—mostly pilgrims going to Italy and especially to Rome for the Holy Year—with a practical guide for moving around easily. In 1601, by the work of the two Padua publishers Francesco Bolzetta and Pietro Bertelli, the second Latin edition of Itinerario d'Italia by Franz Schott was published in Italy, in Vicenza; the work was enriched with maps of some Italian cities and the text, by the publishers’ wish, was expanded by the intervention of Geronimo Capugnano, a Dominican friar from Bologna. A subsequent Latin edition was published by Pietro Bertelli in 1610 in Vicenza. In 1620 the same author Franz Schott, spurred by the immediate success of his Itinerario, attempted publication of another Latin edition of the same, extending it to Germany. In 1625, after the death of Franz Schott, on the occasion of a new Jubilee year his brother Andreas oversaw a new Latin edition of the Itinerario, followed by the edition published in Amsterdam in 1655 by the great geographical publisher Jodocus Jansson. This last edition, erroneously attributed to Andreas Schott, included eighteen city maps of Italy, largely derived from Joannes Jansson’s atlas, Illustrium Italiane urbium tabulae, published in 1657, whose plates had, however, already appeared in 1626 in Nova et accurata Italiane descriptio. Particularly for the Italian editions, the first Italian edition of Schott’s Itinerario d’Italia was published in Venice in 1610 by the editor Francesco Bolzetta. It was based on the 1601 Latin text but the title erroneously attributed the work to Andreas Schott. From this first Italian edition all subsequent Italian editions descended. Through Francesco Bolzetta the Vicentine editions of 1615, 1622 and 1638 appeared, and the Padovan editions of 1629, 1642 and 1649. In all these Italian editions the error of attributing the work to Andreas Schott, rather than to his brother Franz, has been maintained. In Rome the Itinerario di Schott was first published in 1650 by the editor Filippo De Rossi, on the basis of the 1649 text. From this edition the attribution of the guide to its rightful author, Franz Schott, was restored. University of Genoa

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