Giovanni Roncagli

Giovanni Roncagli
Born	1857
Died	1929
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Hydrographer

Giovanni Roncagli (1857–1929) was an Italian naval officer and hydrographer.

Biography

Roncagli was born in 1857.^[1] He enlisted in the navy in 1875, attending the Royal Naval School of Naples. In his biography Vita di mare he tells of his early career, at a time when sailing ships were only slowly being replaced by steam.^[2] Roncagli was the hydrographer for the Italian expedition to explore Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego of 1881–1882, led by Giacomo Bove.^[3] Decio Vinciguerra was officially both zoologist and botanist, but in fact Carlos Luigi Spegazzini from Buenos Aires handled the botanical work.^[4] The geologist Domenico Lovisato made up the scientific party.^[3]

Giovanni Roncagli became a navy captain, an expert in commercial geography and a member of the Italian Naval League. He was secretary general of the Italian Geographic Society from 1897 until World War I (1914–1918).^[5] He also became director of the Navy's historical section.^[1] He was a pioneer in aeronautical topography in Italy, which quickly turned out to be of great importance in World War I.^[6] In 1913 Roncagli presented a report to the Tenth International Geographical Congress in Rome in which he discussed the need for an international aeronautical map.^[7]

Southern Argentina and Chile from Roncagli's Atlante Mondiale Hoepli

Bibliography

• Roncagli, Giovanni (1899). Atlante mondiale Hoepli di geografia moderna fisica e politica seconda edizione rifatta: 80 carte con indice generale completo e speciale per il sistema alpino ed una introduzione storica. Hoepli. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Roncagli, Giovanni (1900). Giovanni Roncagli,... L'Italia in casa e fuori... carte e cartine... con indice completo dei nomi e brevi note geografico-statistiche. U. Hoepli. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Roncagli, Giovanni (May 2010). Responsabilita Marittime (1906). Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-162-18873-7. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Roncagli, Giovanni (1911). Vita di mare.
• Roncagli, Giovanni (1913). Per la cartografia aereonautica. Presso La Reale Società Geographica. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Roncagli, Giovanni (1918). Le problème militaire de l'Adriatique vulgarisé. Reale societa geografica italiana. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Giovanni Roncagli (1918). Dalle origini al decreto di sovranità su la Libia. Hoepli. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Roncagli, Giovanni (1919). The strategical problem of the Adriatic: a popular explanation of Italy's defensive needs. Royal Italian Geographical Society. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Roncagli, Giovanni (1922). Un condottiero, il generale Cadorna nelle sue memorie di guerra e negli atti della Commisione d'inchiesta ... La Vita italiana. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Roncagli, Giovanni; Manfroni, Camillo (1926). Guerra Italo-turca: 1911–1912 : cronistoria delle operazioni navali. Dal decreto di sovranità sulla Libia alla conclusione della pace / Camillo Manfroni. U. Hoepli. Retrieved 2012-12-08.

Notes and references

Citations

1. Grandi esploratori (sec. XIX-XX).
2. Andrea 2009.
3. Bonasera 1971.
4. Godley 1970, p. 76.
5. Gianassi 2007, p. 14.
6. Bowman & Wrigley 1917, p. 339.
7. Akerman 2006, p. 216.

Sources

• Akerman, James R. (2006-10-01). Cartographies of Travel and Navigation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-01074-8. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Andrea, G.M. (25 January 2009). "Vita Di Mare". Betasom. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Bonasera, Francesco (1971). "BOVE, Giacomo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). 13. Trecanni. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
• Bowman, Isaiah; Wrigley, G. M. (1917). Geographical Review. American Geographical Society. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Gianassi, Elisa (2007). "La Spedizione De Filippi in India e Asia Centrale (1913–1914)" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-12-08.
• Godley, E.J. (July 1970). "Botany of the Southern Zone Exploration, 1847–1891". Tuatara. 18 (2). Retrieved 2012-12-06.
• "Grandi esploratori (sec. XIX-XX)". Christies. Retrieved 2012-12-08.