Istoria de'fenomeni del Tremoto Avvenuto nelle Calabrie, e nel Valdemone Nell'anno 1783 [2 volume set)

Pompeo Schiantarelli; Antonio Zaballi; Reale Accademia delle Scienze e Belle Lettere. 1779-c. 1805. (NAPLES)

Napoli: Presso Giuseppe Campo, 1784

[The Devastation of Nature: Sarconi's study of the Calabrian Earthquake]  2 volume set. Text and Atlas volumes. Text volume collation: pp. xiv (2) 352, vi (2). Plate volume is an oblong folio, 48 x 36 cm. 54 (of 68) plates. Bound in contemporary leather-backed boards over green cloth.  Contains plates 1-51, 53-54, 57. Some marginal foxing. 

In 1783 Calabria (then the Kingdom of Naples) and Sicily experienced a series of five devastating earthquakes.  Nearly all of the built structures in the region were destroyed.  The first two earthquakes created tsunamis, which killed thousands of people sleeping on the beaches near Messina.  Between 32000 and 50000 Italians died as a result of disaster.  The Reale Accademia delle Scienze e Belle Lettere of Naples conducted the first scientific study of the event.  This is the plate volume of their study, engraved by Antonio Zaballi from the drawings by Pompeo Schiantarelli and Ignazio Stile. Ref: Kleemann, Katrin. "Living in the Time of a Subsurface Revolution: The 1783 Calabrian Earthquake Sequence." Environment & Society, Arcadia, 2019, no. 30. 

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