| Authorship Notes |
Danti provides a Ramist table with twenty-six points, in the chorographic tradition (based on Italian city-states). He recommends that travellers ascertain the given territory’s boundaries, the size of its cities, population numbers and houses, ecclesiastical structure, topography (including situation of cities, navigable rivers, harbours, and canals); the quality of the air; the fertility of the region and its productions; the inhabitants and their religion, government, and ingrained customs whether good or bad (costumi inveterati buoni, ò biasmevoli); public buildings, fortresses and important structures; and the complement of men of letters. This is table 39 in the work, p. 50.
For discussion see Thomas Frangenberg, “Chorographies of Florence: The Use of City Views and City Plans in the Sixteenth Century”, Imago Mundi 46 (1994), pp. 41-64 (50-52). Danti’s table appears in Italian and English translation in Appendix 1 (pp. 56-8). |
