{"id":1227,"date":"2021-05-28T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/camposanto\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2021-05-31T06:02:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T06:02:49","slug":"henry-de-rogissart-les-delices-de-litalie-1707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/camposanto\/henry-de-rogissart-les-delices-de-litalie-1707\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry de Rogissart, Les D\u00e9lices de l\u2019Italie<\/em> (1707)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Les D\u00e9lices de l\u2019Italie is unique among the sources collected here because Henry de Rogissart wrote specifically about the cities, art and architecture of Italy. Unlike other travel accounts that were written based on grand tours the authors made, this book aims to convey extensive information just about Italy. As can be gathered from the fact that a German translation appeared soon after, and an Italian translation in 1709, Rossigart\u2019s was a popular guidebook of the time. Even Montesquieu, who traveled Italy in 1728, hints in his journal that he referred to <\/em>Les D\u00e9lices during the trip. The illustrations and maps of Italy in <\/em>Les D\u00e9lices may have contributed to its popularity. The description of the Camposanto is not very detailed but still covers its architecture and paintings, and the legend of the holy earth. \/ DJ<\/em><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong> Henry de Rogissart, Les D\u00e9lices de l\u2019Italie, contenant une description exacte du Pais, des principales Villes, de toutes les Antiquitez et de toutes les raretez qui s’y trouvent<\/em>, 4 vols. (Paris: Compagnie des Libraires, 1707), 66-68.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

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“Au Nord de la Cathedrale, est le Campo santo<\/i>, qui est un cimitiere auquel on a donn\u00e9 ce nom \u00e0 cause qu\u2019il est rempli de terre de la Palestine, que les Pisans apport\u00e9rent de Jerusalem l\u2019an 1228. lors qu\u2019ils envo\u00ef\u00e9rent du secours \u00e0 Frederic Premier, pour prendre cette ville. Cette terre avoit autrefois la vertu de r\u00e9duire les corps en cendres en vingt-quatre heures; cela est \u00e9crit sur une des murailles: mais comme elle a perdu beaucoup de sa premier chaleur, il lui faut un peu de plus de temps \u00e0 present pour les consumer. Il ne faut pas s\u2019\u00e9tonner que les Pisans ayent pris la peine d\u2019apporter de la terre de la Palestine, ils n\u2019ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 les premiers: Saint Augustin & Gregoire de Tours ont parl\u00e9 de semblables d\u00e9votions et combien Ste. Helen en a-t-elle apport\u00e9 a Rome? Mais revenons \u00e0 n\u00f4tre cimetiere, la terre n\u2019est pas tout ce qu\u2019il y a de plus curieux. Il est entour\u00e9 d\u2019une espece de galerie comme un clo\u00eetre, laquelle est entierement pav\u00e9e marbre et les murailles sont couvertes de belles peintures. D\u2019un c\u00f4t\u00e9 ce sont les plus belles actions de la vie des Peres et de l\u2019autre, des histoires de l\u2019Ancien Testament: tout cela est de bon main. On y voit aussi les fameuses Inscriptions, dont le scavant Noris nous a donn\u00e9 l\u2019explication. Ce cimetiere a 180. pas de long: il est rempli de quantit\u00e9 de Mausol\u00e9es, dont il y en a un sur lequel la chasse de Meleagre est si bien represent\u00e9e en bas-relief, que Nicolas Pisan, qui vivoit\u00a0 au XIII. siecle, s\u2019est form\u00e9 dessus pour reparer la sculpture.”<\/span><\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

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North of the Cathedral is the Campo Santo, which is a cemetery that has been given this name because it is filled with soil from Palestine, which the Pisans brought from Jerusalem in the year 1228, when they sent aid to Frederick I to take the city. This earth used to have the virtue of reducing bodies to ashes in twenty-four hours; this is written on one of the walls. But as it has lost much of its first heat, it needs a little more time now to consume them. It is not surprising that the Pisans took the trouble to bring earth from Palestine; they were not the first: St Augustine and Gregory of Tours spoke of similar practices, and how much did St. Helena bring to Rome? But let us return to our cemetery, the land is not all that curious. It is surrounded by a kind of gallery like a cloister, which is entirely paved with marble and the walls are covered with beautiful paintings. On one side are the most beautiful scenes from the lives of the Fathers, and on the other side, stories of the Old Testament; all that is done by a good hand. One can also see the famous inscriptions, which the scholar Noris explained to us. This cemetery is 180 paces long, and it is filled with a great number of mausoleums; among these, there is one with the Hunting of Meleager so well represented in bas-relief that Nicola Pisano, who lived in the thirteenth century, got his training by repairing the sculpture.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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