Battisti, geographer in Valsugana

A hundred years after the death of Cesare Battisti, Levico’s Culturale Chiarentana association presents a series of initiatives to remember that in the beginning Battisti was a scientist and geographer.

An exhibition in the halls of Fort delle Benne and a reissue of the Levico Guide will be the focus of a series of events to be held in Levico Terme over the summer.

At the beginning of the new century Cesare Battisti, a leading Trentino socialist, published a series of guides to his region. He published them as an editor, supporting his family with the income from the printing press. He published them as an author because Battisti was a geographer, who trained at the most innovative Italian geographic school, that of the Florentine Giovanni Marinelli, who resented the influx of German anthropogeography. He published them as an author because Battisti was deeply in love with his land.

The 20 panels of this photo-documentary exhibition are dedicated to Battisti’s geographical activity, inseparable from the political and military activity of the multifaceted Trentino socialist.

In addition, there are the portraits of some of the people who most influenced Battisti, his thinking and his work as a geographer.

Exhibition by:
Associazione Culturale Chiarentana di Levico Terme, Gruppo di Lavoro Forte delle Benne; curated by Carolina Cattoni, Elisa Corni, Francesco Filippi and Leonardo Vinciguerra.

Information:
chiarentanalevico@gmail.com
FB Forte colle delle benne
Azienda per il Turismo Valsugana Lagorai – Terme – Laghi
Via Vittorio Emanuele, 3, 38056 Levico Terme TN
tel. +39 0461 727700
Levico Storiacultura | levicostoriacultura@gmail.com

For guided tours during the week (groups and schools only) please contact APT Valsugana (0461 727700) or levicostroriacultura@gmail.com or 328 0540698 (Elisa).

Source: www.trentinograndeguerra.it