Raffaele Pareto and the “Lettere artistiche”. Inspection travels to map wetlands and historical and artistic monuments descriptions. In the Sixties of the nineteenth Century Raffaele Pareto, as hydraulic engineer and soil remediation expert, played an important role in the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Italian Kingdom. Because of his position he made many iand malarial areas in the Country territory. In addition to technical reports about his activity in the Ministry, he also wrote the Lettere artistiche, serially published in the «Giornale dell’Ingegnere Architetto e Agronomo», wich he directed from 1860 to 1867. He describes cities and monuments encountered during one of the inspection travels, in 1865. These articles are an interesting synthesis, in which its knowledge as hydraulic engineer, combined with deep humanistic culture delineates a kind of 'art-historical geography', where Pareto blends scientific and technical observations with historical and artistic descriptions.

Raffaele Pareto e le “Lettere artistiche”. Resoconti di viaggio tra ricognizione di aree di bonifica e illustrazione di monumenti storico-artistici

PESENTI, SERENA
2014-01-01

Abstract

Raffaele Pareto and the “Lettere artistiche”. Inspection travels to map wetlands and historical and artistic monuments descriptions. In the Sixties of the nineteenth Century Raffaele Pareto, as hydraulic engineer and soil remediation expert, played an important role in the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Italian Kingdom. Because of his position he made many iand malarial areas in the Country territory. In addition to technical reports about his activity in the Ministry, he also wrote the Lettere artistiche, serially published in the «Giornale dell’Ingegnere Architetto e Agronomo», wich he directed from 1860 to 1867. He describes cities and monuments encountered during one of the inspection travels, in 1865. These articles are an interesting synthesis, in which its knowledge as hydraulic engineer, combined with deep humanistic culture delineates a kind of 'art-historical geography', where Pareto blends scientific and technical observations with historical and artistic descriptions.
2014
History of Engineering Storia dell’Ingegneria Proceedings of the International Conference, voll. 2
9788887479805
Raffaele Pareto; aree paludose; Regno d'Italia; paesaggio realista XIX fine secolo
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