Natale Angielini

Natale Angielini , also Natale Angelini or Natale Angielus , (* before about 1537 in Milan ; † 1574 in Pukanec ) was an architect , engineer and cartographer of the Renaissance who participated in the defense against the attacks of the Ottomans on the southern border of the Habsburg Empire .

Life

Natale worked together with his younger brother Nicolo Angielini as a fortress builder on the expansion of the Habsburg military border in Croatia and Hungary . First of all, it can be seen from 1557 in the inner Austrian royal seat of Graz , from where in 1563 he took part in an exploration mission of the Habsburg fortresses in Croatia and made a map of this area.

On January 1, 1564, Natale Angielini was appointed by Emperor Ferdinand I to the imperial court in Vienna . From there he traveled with his brother Nicolo to the imperial castles and fortresses in Hungary on the border against the Ottoman Empire in the following decade. As an architect and castle builder, he was responsible for the planning and implementation of renovations and extensions of the fortresses with his brother Nicolo and son Paolo. In 1573 he was appointed military superintendent of the mountainous border district in Hungary. He died in this office soon after, in May or June 1574, in Pukanz (Bakabánya / Pukanec). His son continued his father's activity but did not survive long.

Until recently, the brothers Natale and Nicolo were led by research under the name of their younger brother Nicolo, since they worked largely parallel in terms of location and time. The cartographic work of the Angielini family from around 1563 to 1574 has been handed down in elaborate, colored atlases in Vienna, Karlsruhe and Dresden.

plant

• 2 atlases: ÖNB Vienna, manuscript collection Cod. 8609 (preface at the end of 1574) and Cod. 8607
• Atlas: BGLA Karlsruhe, bound maps and plans Hfl. Vol. XV
• 2 atlases: SHStA Dresden, maps, cracks, pictures cabinet XXVI, Fsc. 96 No. 6 and 5

literature

• Ferdinand Opll, Heike Krause, Christoph Sonnlechner: Vienna as a fortress city in the 16th century. On the cartographic work of the Angielini family from Milan. Vienna 2017 online as an open access version
• Géza Pálffy : The beginnings of military cartography in the Habsburg monarchy. The regular cartographic activity of the Angielini family of castle builders on the Croatian-Slavonian and Hungarian borders in the years 1560–1570. ( A haditérképészet kezdetei a Habsburg Monarchiában az Angielini várépítész-família rendszeres térképészeti tevékenysége a horvátszlavón és a magyarországi határvidéken az 1560–1570-es években ). Archívum, Budapest 2011, ISBN 978-963-631-210-7 ( review on sehepunkte.de).
• Ivka Kljajic: Cartographic representations of Croatian cities from the 16th century. Dissertation. University of Zagreb, Zagreb 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The correction in Palffy 2011