Theatrum Sabaudiae. Teatro degli Stati del
Duca di Savoia
a cura di ROSANNA ROCCIA
collana blu, nuova edizione, Torino, 2000
Contributi di Luigi Firpo, Vincenzo Borasi, Maria Luisa Doglio,
Ada Peyrot, Isabella Ricci, Rosanna Roccia.
Trascrizione testi originali latini: Maura Baima.
Traduzione italiana: Giuseppe Bocchino; Lucio Bertelli.
Traduzione francese: Anne-Catherine Caron e Laurence Annie Wasserstein.
Traduzione inglese: Harriet Graham.
Cofanetto con 2 volumi, 145 tavole a colori, pp. 686, 1 CD-rom,
€ 144,61.
Luigi Firpo, Immagini di un regno sognato
Isabella Ricci e Rosanna Roccia, La grande impresa editoriale
Ada Peyrot, Le immagini e gli artisti
Maria Luisa Doglio, Le relazioni come documento letterario
Vincenzo Borasi, Villaggi e città in Piemonte nel seicento
Ada Peyrot, La diffusione del "Theatrum"
Rosanna Roccia, I documenti
The introductory essays are followed by a
complete transcription of the original descriptions in Latin and
its translation in Italian, French and English.
A high definition, multimedia CD-ROM containing
the 145 plates in colour, with previously unpublished music by
Turinese composers active between the 17th and 18th centuries,
completes the two volumes.
The Theatrum Statuum Regiae
Celsitudinis Sabaudiae Ducis, Pedemontii Principis, Cypri Regis
was an unprecedented publishing achievement and an absolutely
new promotional initiative. It was the result of an ambitious
project initiated by Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy in the 1660s,
followed up and completed in the 1680s by the regent Marie Jeanne
Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours.
It was finally published in 1682 in Amsterdam, by the Blaeu printing
works.
Made up of two big volumes in folio, the Theatrum contains 145
engraved plates accompanied by descriptions in Latin describing
the cities, towns and lands belonging to the Duchy of Savoy, which
at that time included varying portions of Piedmont, the Aosta
Valley, Savoy, Liguria and the area of Nice.
This large illustrated volume was intended for other European
courts as a unique sort of splendid visiting card.
In 1983-1984, the Historical Archives of the
City of Turin, custodian of an extremely rare example in colour
of the Theatrum Sabaudiae that arrived as part of the Simeom Collection,
entrusted Luigi Firpo with publication of the first complete edition
of the iconographical corpus of this magnificent work.
With the first edition now out of print, this new edition differs
slightly from Firpo's and presents some interesting new features
that emphasise the work's European character and informative aims.