Giovanni Battista Nolli

Topografia di Roma (Topography of Rome) from 1748 , engraved by Nolli and Piranesi , small version of the Nuova Topografia di Roma

Nuova Topografia di Roma del Nolli ( 1748 ): Section of the area around the Piazza del Popolo , from where the famous Tridente ("trident") emanates, consisting of Via di Ripetta , Via del Corso and Via del Babuino

Giovanni Battista Nolli , also Giambattista Nolli , (born April 9, 1701 in Castiglione d'Intelvi , † July 3, 1756 in Rome ) was an Italian engineer , architect , engraver and cartographer .

biography

He left Como at an early age to initially work as a surveyor in Milan . There he was busy compiling the local cadastre . Thanks to the acquaintance with the Milan Abbot Diego Revilla's , astronomer and mathematician at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" , he moved then to Rome , where he it into the circle of writers, scholars and scientists at the court of the important families Albani and Corsini introduced has been.

One of his most important works is in the context of the documentation of the Roman urban development La Pianta Grande di Roma ( German : The great plan of Rome )., The graphic part of the work La Nuova Topografia di Roma (12 sheets of copperplate engravings and a separate index as well as plan reductions and legend) .

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Battista Nolli - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

La Nuova Topografia di Roma , complete reproduction of the 12 map sheets.
The Nolli Map website , with index of numbers.
App homepage with map and index (Nuova Topografia di Roma)

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Fröhlich; Max Kunze; Winckelmann Society: Roman Collection of Antiquities in the 18th Century. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1998, ISBN 978-3-8053-2513-4 , p. 13.
↑ ^a ^b Steen Eiler Rasmussen: LONDON. The Unique City. The story of a cosmopolitan city. Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-0346-1093-3 , p. 420.

personal data
SURNAME	Nolli, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nolli, Giambattista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian engineer, architect, engraver and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1692 or 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH	Como
DATE OF DEATH	1756
Place of death	Rome

[fröhlich-1] Thomas Fröhlich; Max Kunze; Winckelmann Society: Roman Collection of Antiquities in the 18th Century. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1998, ISBN 978-3-8053-2513-4 , p. 13.

[rasmussen-2] Steen Eiler Rasmussen: LONDON. The Unique City. The story of a cosmopolitan city. Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-0346-1093-3 , p. 420.