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Picturing Pisa

2004; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 28; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03087298.2004.10441348

2150-7295

Graham Smith,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

Abstract On 7 October 1839, in a session of the first ‘Riunione degli Scienzati Italiani’, which was held in Pisa, a Florentine named Tito Puliti showed the delegates an apparatus with which he had made ‘molti saggi d'impressioni’ using the process published earlier that year by Louis Jacques- Mande Daguerre. At the end of the session, the chairman asked Puliti to return at noon on 10 October to demonstrate the equipment by taking a view of the Piazza del Duomo from the Ospedale di Santa Chiara, a building situated immediately to the south of the Cathedral. Puliti's daguerreotype was to be the first of many such photographs taken of the monumental buildings in the Piazza del Duomo — also known as the Piazza dei Miracoli — during the nineteenth century.