Italy - Padua; Francesco Scoto (1548/ 1622)

Title of the work: Itinerario, overo nova descrittione de' viaggi principali d'Italia. It was the most famous and widespread guide for travelers of the Grand Tour in Italy during the entire 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 Padua editions from the mid-17th century, in particular those published in the years 1654, 1659 or 1675. Publisher and Place: Printed in Padua at Mattio Cadorini (or for the Cadorino) Copper engraving in black and white, excellent inking and intaglio printing on watermarked laid paper, minimal margins, opposite margin worn bound, stain in the center, all as in the photo. Good state of conservation, slight traces of foxing and browning. Editorial fold and visible binding marks. insured shipping via Bartolini/DPD courier. To use the insurance coverage, any damage 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 travel guide of the 17th century, originally written in Latin by Francesco Scoto (Franz Schott) and subsequently translated into Italian, expanded, and published in various editions between 1629 and 1670 (e.g., after Francesco Bolzetta or Gio. Pietro Brigonci). The book provides a detailed description of travels in Italy, enriched with city plans, bird's-eye 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 mainly referred to an important editor, printer and bookseller in 17th-century Italy. Franz Schott (1548-1622) anglicized (Francesco Scoto) Franz Schott, in Latin Franciscus Schottus, anglicized Francesco Scoto (Antwerp, 1548 – 1622), was a jurist and Flemish traveler. Brother of Andreas Schott, he was author of a guide for pilgrims bound for Italy for the Jubilee of 1600: the Itinerarium nobiliorum Italiae regionum, urbium, oppidorum, et locorum. The work enjoyed 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 entitled Itinerarii Italiae at Jeans Moretus of Antwerp, with the aim of providing readers, most of whom were pilgrims going to Italy and particularly to Rome for the Holy Year, with a practical guide to move around easily. In 1601, by the work of the two Padua publishers Francesco Bolzetta and Pietro Bertelli, the second Latin edition of the 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 editors’ 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, driven by the immediate success that his Itinerario had achieved, attempted publication of another Latin edition of the same, extending it to Germany. In 1625, after Schott’s death, on the occasion of a new Jubilee year his brother Andreas oversaw a new Latin edition of the Itinerario, which was followed by the edition published in Amsterdam in 1655 by the great geographic publisher Jodocus Jansson. This last edition, which was erroneously attributed to Andreas Schott, included eighteen city maps of Italy, largely derived from Joannes Jansson’s atlas, titled Illustrium Italiane urbium tabulae and published in 1657, whose plans had however already appeared in 1626 in the 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 publisher Francesco Bolzetta. It was based on the 1601 Latin text but the title erroneously credited 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 Padua editions of 1629, 1642 and 1649. In all these Italian editions the error of attributing the work to Andreas Schott instead of his brother Franz has been maintained. In Rome the Itinerario of Schott was published for the first time in 1650 by the publisher Filippo De Rossi, based on 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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