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Presentation by Lucio Delcaro
Magnifico Rettore of the University of Trieste

Preface
The memory represented

Part one
Cartography and knowledge


Chapter One
Classic and Medieval Tradition
To the origins of scientific method. Earth image Descriptions and representations of ECUMENE from tardo-antica age to sixteenth century

Chapter Two
In between continuity and changing Geographical explorations and world images in fifthteenth and sixteenth centuries The rebirth of geography The earlier reprensentation of a world in transiction Geographical knowledge in the work of PIETRO COPPO Italian ATLANTI tradiction From the Earth flat to Earth globe. Conjectures and experiences for an epistemological revolution

PART TWO
The image of Italy

Introduction
The graphical-iconical understanding of Italy in its chorological tradition

Chapter one
The most ancient cartographical documents The reprensentation of Italy in the Tabula Peutingeriana Italy in the Tolemaical's Cartography of the most ancient codes The image of Italy in globes and in nautical medieval cartography

Chapter two
The new cartography of Italy in Fifthteenth and Sixtheenth centuries The geography of Claudio Tolomeo in Italian Rinascimento: the modern Italy

Chapter three
At the early beginning of chorographical tradition The most ancient regional evidences in manuscripted cartography The earlier chorographical printed documents Regional knowledge building processes In between Piedmont, Liguria and Lombardy In Veneto's dominio and his border lands Chorology in the north adriatich regions Modern Tuscany Charts of Church Dominium Earlier cartografical documents in Naples Realm The chorology in Puglia's territory A Calabrian's chorographer from Sixteenth century: Gabriele Barrio and his “De Antiquitate et situ Calabriae...” Reign of Naples in the Mario Cartaro manuscript atlas (1613) The islands: Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily

Chapter four
Big buildings Italian atlas manuscript, anonymous and without date, from Padua's Seminario Vescovile Italy in the northern Atlas from Ortelio and Del De Joe Mural Atlas of Italy by Egnazio Danti The Mercatoriana building process of Italy

Chapter Five
The end of an Age
Italy by Giovanni Antonio Magni

Bibliography

Index of authors, cartographers, incisors, editors and printers
Index of reproduced maps