Plan de la Ville de Peschiera Dessie et Grave Par Abroise Tardieu

Title

Plan de la Ville de Peschiera Dessie et Grave Par Abroise Tardieu

Description

Very nice map of the town of Peschiera del Garda with index on the right side.

c. 1801

Artist

Tardieu (1746-1816)

Ambroise Tardieu ( 1788 - 1841 in Paris) was an eminent French cartographer and engraver, and is celebrated for his version of John Arrowsmith's 1806 map of the United States. Tardieu's son, Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818-1879), was also an artist and a famous forensic medical scholar, who supplied the illustrations for Dr. Pierre François Olive Rayer's three-volume Traité des maladies des reins (1839-41), a treatise on diseases of the kidneys.

Historical Description

Peschiera del Garda in the province of Verona, Veneto region. Its inhabitants are still called Arilicensi after the Roman name of the town of Arilica. The earliest settlement of Peschiera dates back to the Early Bronze Age. The first phase of the pile-dwelling settlement of Belvedere on the shores of Lake Garda began in the middle of the 21st century BC and ended around 100 years later. At the end of the 18th century, the pile-dwelling settlement of Frassino was built on Lake Frassino. At this time, at the transition from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age, the short second phase of the pile-dwelling settlement on Lake Garda began. The two older pile dwelling settlements, which were only discovered at the end of the 20th century, are among the 111 prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. In Roman times, Peschiera was a vicus in the Roman province of Gallia cisalpina. It was called Arilica or Arelica in inscriptions. The town probably took on its current name of Peschiera between the 8th and 9th centuries. At least it appears in a document dated November 12, 877 under the name Piscaria, which in part goes back to Charlemagne. In 1440, the Republic of Venice under its condottiere Francesco I. Sforza was finally able to take the town. Venice expanded Peschiera into a fortress between the 15th and 16th centuries.