The Marquisate and the Ville de Cotrone

Abstract

Some preparatory sketches depicting the Marquisate of Crotone – drawn by members of the expedition of the Abbot of Saint-Non – represent an important territorial context verifying the process of elaboration of the images, used to illustrate the Voyage, from the preparatory sketches to the final engravings. Starting from those significant and irreplaceable testimonies, making use of the support of further documentation, not only iconographic, produced over time, it was then possible to detect the transformation that the image of the examined places - Strongoli, Isola Capo Rizzuto, Torre Melissa, Capo Colonna, Crotone - has recorded over the past two and a half centuries.

Keywords

• Marchesato di Crotone
• schizzi preparatori
• spedizione Saint-Non