{"id":115,"date":"2020-05-02T17:15:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/camposanto\/?p=115"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:36:33","slug":"furttenbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/camposanto\/furttenbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Furttenbach (1591-1667), Newes Itinerarium Italiae<\/em> (1627)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joseph Furttenbach\u2019s Newes Itinerarium Italiae differs from other travel guides or diaries about Italy written by his English counterparts. Whereas most English travel logs written in the seventeenth century were based on notes taken by aristocratic Englishmen or their traveling companions during their Grand Tour of continental Europe, Furttenbach migrated to Italy and stayed there for 12 years. Following in the footsteps of his relatives, he did an apprenticeship as merchant, and during his stays in Milan, Genoa and Florence, he travelled to various places.[1]<\/strong><\/a> He also studied engineering and architecture while abroad and later built a successful career as an architect after returning to his home country, Germany. Although his time in Italy would have been occupied with work and family business rather than leisure activities, his book is written to be read as travel literature as the title suggests. He specifically uses the word \u201cRei\u00df\u201d (which means travel in German) to describe his experiences. Historian Roberto Zaugg has pointed out that Furttenbach consciously promotes himself as a cultural mediator between Italy and Germany by filling his book with the details of the architecture of churches, palaces and theaters.[2]<\/strong><\/a> Engravings of the buildings and ground plans show how Furttenbach aims to instruct and inform his readers about the architecture of Italy, thereby establishing himself as an expert in the field.[3]<\/strong><\/a> His description of the Camposanto reflects his attention to architectural details such as sepulchres and sarcophagi occupying the gallery, and notes that the holy earth is supposedly from Jerusalem. \/ DJ<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0Roberto Zaugg,\u00a0\u201cJoseph Furttenbach als kultureller Vermittler,\u201d in Lebenslauff 1652\u20131664<\/em>, ed. Roberto Zaugg, Kim Siebenh\u00fcner and Kaspar von Greyerz (Cologne:B\u00f6hlau Verlag, 2013),\u00a0 27-28.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[2]<\/a> Ibid., 32.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[3]<\/a> Ibid., 34.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: <\/strong>Joseph Furttenbach, Newes Itinerarium Italiae (Ulm: Saur, 1627), 70.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

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\u201cGleich darbey ist der Campo Santo, ein Creutzgang so gantz ubermahlet, von gar alten Historien und Grabschriften gezieret. In der mitten hats ein offnen Gottsacker und an seinen Seiten stehen viel alte steinerne sepulchri und S\u00e4rch der Boden oder die Erden ist also beschaffen, \u00a0dass die todne C\u00f6rper so man darein begr\u00e4bt in 24. Stunden consumiren und verwesen also dass hernach allein die Gebein gefunden werden wie man mich berichtet so solle solche Erden terra santa, und von Jerusalem dahin gef\u00fchrt worden sein.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

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Right next to it [close to the Baptistery] is the Campo Santo, a cloister completely
\ncovered, adorned with very old histories and\u00a0epitaphs. In the middle, there is an
\nopen cemetery, and there are many\u00a0old stone graves and coffins on the sides.
\nThe ground, or the earth,\u00a0consumes and decomposes the dead bodies\u00a0buried in it in 24 hours,\u00a0so that afterwards only the\u00a0bones are found, as I have been told. Thus such earth is said to be terra santa,
\nand is said to have been brought there from Jerusalem.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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