Hydraulic Engineers and Antiquarians: Political Use of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Venice

Fig 1.

Paper Projects. Late eighteenth-century plans show Brenta river routes proposed by leading hydraulic experts. Some were commissioned by the Republic of Venice (lines AA indicate the route proposed by Antonio Maria Lorgna), while others emerged from discussing previous projects (lines BB indicate the changes to the Lorgna project by Leonardo Ximenes and Simone Stratico; lines CC are Paola Frisi's proposed changes). At the fall of the republic, these projects all remained on paper (Source: BUP, ms. 87).