SAGRI, Nicolo. Il Chartigiatore . (Probably) autograph manuscript, unpublished, on paper [Ragusa (Dubrovnik), ca. 1570] 4° (210 x 140mm). 111 leaves (numbered 109, leaving out first and last blanks): 1 8 , 2-3 10 , 4 1 2 (12v blank), 5-9 8 , 10 10 (7 blank), 11-12 8 , 13 5 (of 8, last 3 leaves cancelled blanks). 16-20 lines written in brown ink in a mercantile cursive hand, many diagrams, arithmetical calculations and summaries of the argument in the margins. Sewn with papered spine (worn), later stiff paper wrappers, modern black morocco box. IMPORTANT UNPUBLISHED AND (PROBABLY) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ON SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MEDITERRANEAN SEAMANSHIP, shipbuilding, navigation and cartography. The author, Niccolò Sagri, 'marinaro raguseo' as he styles himself, was born in 1538 on the island of Giupana near Ragusa. The present manuscript is probably the fair copy that Sagri says in the preface he is preparing for his nephew, but on which he evidently continued to work. The work was meant to be composed of six books, but we have here only the first (with an apparent lacuna between ff. 39 and 40) and the (unfinished) second. Sagri also tells us of his intention of writing four other books: of these only one is known, the Ragionamenti sopra i flussi e i riflussi del mare Oceano occidentale (Venice, 1574; his only published work). Sagri defines a chartigiatore or chartista as 'quello che de' avere la chura di dare il chamino alla nave e chondurla fino a la bocha del porto'. The book is rich in details of shipbuilding, of life on board ship, of the costs and profits of mercantile voyages, of mapmaking and the errors of contemporary maps and charts, of the use of the compass and the measuring of latitude and longitude. It is also valuable for its technical vocabulary, and may have influenced the terminology of Bartolomeo Crescenzi's classic Nautica Mediterranea (Rome, 1607). The moment at which the book was written was a crucial one. In 1570 a great European counter-offensive against the Turks had been prepared at the instigation of Pope Pius V, which was to lead to the great naval victory of Lepanto in October 1571. Sagri writes of the shipwreck off Ragusa of Marc' Antonio Colonna, admiral of the papal fleet, and of Sforza Pallavicini, commander of the Venetian infantry, which he regards as divine punishment on the Venetians for sacking the Aegean islands rather than attacking the Turks. See F.M. Appendini, Notizie istorico-critiche sulle antichità, storia e letteratura de' Ragusei (Ragusa, 1802-3)
SAGRI, Nicolo. Il Chartigiatore . (Probably) autograph manuscript, unpublished, on paper [Ragusa (Dubrovnik), ca. 1570] 4° (210 x 140mm). 111 leaves (numbered 109, leaving out first and last blanks): 1 8 , 2-3 10 , 4 1 2 (12v blank), 5-9 8 , 10 10 (7 blank), 11-12 8 , 13 5 (of 8, last 3 leaves cancelled blanks). 16-20 lines written in brown ink in a mercantile cursive hand, many diagrams, arithmetical calculations and summaries of the argument in the margins. Sewn with papered spine (worn), later stiff paper wrappers, modern black morocco box. IMPORTANT UNPUBLISHED AND (PROBABLY) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ON SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MEDITERRANEAN SEAMANSHIP, shipbuilding, navigation and cartography. The author, Niccolò Sagri, 'marinaro raguseo' as he styles himself, was born in 1538 on the island of Giupana near Ragusa. The present manuscript is probably the fair copy that Sagri says in the preface he is preparing for his nephew, but on which he evidently continued to work. The work was meant to be composed of six books, but we have here only the first (with an apparent lacuna between ff. 39 and 40) and the (unfinished) second. Sagri also tells us of his intention of writing four other books: of these only one is known, the Ragionamenti sopra i flussi e i riflussi del mare Oceano occidentale (Venice, 1574; his only published work). Sagri defines a chartigiatore or chartista as 'quello che de' avere la chura di dare il chamino alla nave e chondurla fino a la bocha del porto'. The book is rich in details of shipbuilding, of life on board ship, of the costs and profits of mercantile voyages, of mapmaking and the errors of contemporary maps and charts, of the use of the compass and the measuring of latitude and longitude. It is also valuable for its technical vocabulary, and may have influenced the terminology of Bartolomeo Crescenzi's classic Nautica Mediterranea (Rome, 1607). The moment at which the book was written was a crucial one. In 1570 a great European counter-offensive against the Turks had been prepared at the instigation of Pope Pius V, which was to lead to the great naval victory of Lepanto in October 1571. Sagri writes of the shipwreck off Ragusa of Marc' Antonio Colonna, admiral of the papal fleet, and of Sforza Pallavicini, commander of the Venetian infantry, which he regards as divine punishment on the Venetians for sacking the Aegean islands rather than attacking the Turks. See F.M. Appendini, Notizie istorico-critiche sulle antichità, storia e letteratura de' Ragusei (Ragusa, 1802-3)
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