XVIII century

Regnorum Siciliae et Sardiniae nova tabula, 1705-1

18th century: the cartography of military engineers

There are numerous papers drawn up in the eighteenth century during the Savoy government. The first, dating back to about 1720, is a hand-watercolored handwritten paper, preserved in the State Archives of Turin, traced by the Neapolitan painter Domenico Colombino (author of the paintings of the sacristy of San Michele in Cagliari). The work is precise in the relief, in the orography, in the administrative divisions and expresses well the needs of the Savoy government to have a detailed representation of the territory.
Most of the maps of this century were drawn up by military engineers who were responsible for inspecting the state of the coastal towers and preparing a plan for their reuse. In them it is possible to find a large amount of information and data on toponymy, on inhabited centers and on the number of inhabitants, as well as on bishoprics, marquisates, counties, baronies and intrades. However, this material had little circulation, limited to military uses.
During the 19th century, there was also an increasing French strategic and commercial interest in the favorable position of Sardinia, as evidenced by the attention of French geographers and hydrographers. A nautical chart with a precise description of the island's coastline is on the sheets of Joseph Roux's “Carte de la Mer Méditerranée” (1764).
At the end of the century, in the climate of the Enlightenment culture, volumes were published that greatly enrich geographical and scientific knowledge about the island. The last major cartographic document of the 18th century is the map of Sardinia from the large “Carte Générale du Théatre de la Guerre en Italie”, consisting of 54 sheets, and drawn up in 1797-98 by Bacler d'Albe, head of Napoleon Bonaparte's topographic office. The overall appearance of the island is close to reality, the map is in fact the most mature product of the new topographic and mathematical cartography. D'Albe depicts the fiefdoms and - for the first time in detail -

the road network.

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XVIII secolo: la cartografia degli ingegneri militari

Sono numerose le carte elaborate nel Settecento durante il governo sabaudo. La prima, risalente circa al 1720, è una carta manoscritta acquerellata a mano, conservata nell'Archivio di Stato di Torino, tracciata dal pittore napoletano Domenico Colombino.Inserire il testo dell'articolo

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