Francesco Patrizi et la géographie antique

• Autores: Patrick Gautier Dalché
• Localización: Geografía y cartografía de la Antigüedad al Renacimiento: estudios en honor de Francesco Prontera / Encarnación Castro Páez (ed. lit.), Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-84-18254-29-1, págs. 399-420
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The Sienese humanist Francesco Patrizi is the author of a pedagogical treatise (De regno regisque institutione) composed from 1471/1473 to 1482/1483 and dedicated to the Duke of Calabria. Knowledge of places and peoples is presented to the sovereign as necessary, through texts and maps. Patrizi made a presentation of the ancient geographers, largely taken from Strabon and supplemented by various other authors. It underlines the necessity of the use of maps, particularly in military operations. He conceives ancient geography as a cumulative process based on travel and promoted by the constitution of the empires of Alexander and Rome. He gives much more importance to Strabo, “non minus historicus quam geographus”, who provided what was essential for the prince’s institutio and who could not appear in a “mathematical”, and therefore abstract, work such as Ptolemy’s Géography. Patrizi’s reflections help to understand that the two major works of ancient geography were not received in a single way in the Quattrocento. Depending on the cultural and intellectual backgrounds, and the circumstances, Strabo and Ptolemy have responded to a variety of concerns. Patrizi occupies an original place, characterized both by an absolute respect for Strabon’s extraordinary achievements, but also by his concern to make them useful in the present to the sovereign, and finally by his awareness of the historicity of geographical knowledge.