Carte, documenti e strumenti per lo studio della cartografia: l’eredità dell'Istituto di Geografia dell'Università Sapienza

Abstract

The Geography Cabinet of the Royal University of Rome was established in 1876 and has since acquired material for teaching and research purposes. Its current holdings are the result of the sedimentation of almost one hundred and fifty years of activity. This essay intends to shed light on the motivations and methods that led to the acquisition of the cartographic material now inherited by the Geography Section of the Department of Modern Humanities and Cultures of the Sapienza University of Rome. These collections are today unrecognised and in the process of being recovered and enhanced after more than a century of neglect. Particularly relevant to the study of the Institute's history is the production of professors and researchers from the Cabinet, later the Institute, of which the volume Nozioni di cartografia e avviamento alla lettura delle carte by Marina Emiliani Salinari and Raffaella Luisa Papocchia is a part, testifying to the attention paid by the Institute to the teaching of geography and cartography.