Cesare Orlandi Explained

Cesare Orlandi
Birth Date:26 July 1734[1]
Death Place:Perugia
Language:Italian

Cesare Orlandi (Città della Pieve, 26 luglio 1734 – Perugia, 20 dicembre 1779) was an Italian writer and historian. He was a nobleman of Fermo, Atri and Città della Pieve,[2] and he's known only for his work Delle città d'Italia e sue isole adjacenti [sic] compendiose notizie[3] (1770-1778),[1] which contains comprehensive details and high-quality landscape views of many Italian cities (a landscape view is attached at the beginning of each section and for each city). It was published in volumes over almost a decade (1770-1778). He is likely to be the "Abatte Cesare Orlandi" who edited and published an edition of Cesare Ripa's "Iconology" in 1764, which contains a portrait.

His work remained unfinished due to the author's death, occurred in 1779, and the Italian cities covered in his work span from letter A (Volume I[4]) to letter C (Volume V[5]). The work is often a valuable source of information about the structure, architecture, history and social organization of many Italian cities up to the XVIII century.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: ORLANDI, Cesare in "Dizionario Biografico".
  2. It is written at the bottom of the drawing on first page of volume I of his book Delle città d'Italia
  3. [#cesare-orlandi-first|volume I]
  4. [#cesare-orlandi-first|C. Orlandi - Volume I]
  5. [#cesare-orlandi-fifth|C. Orlandi - Volume V]

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