Cesare Battisti Archive
In this fond there are no writings or documents relating to the phenomenon of the reddening of lake Tovel. In Cesare Battisti’s notebooks, as evidence of his ability as a geographer, it is possible to see the first attempts of systematic descriptions of the lakes of Trentino, including lake Tovel.
Box 24 “Attività scientifica 1897- [1900]”
File 4 “Quaderni e taccuini di Cesare Battisti. Appunto di Leonardo Ricci (1943), già compagno di studi di Cesare Battisti”
It includes notes on water temperatures, on the formation of alpine lakes, vegetation, maps, various bibliographical notes and drawings concerning several Trentino lakes: lake Cei, lake Loppio, lake Molveno, lake Campo, lake Nuovo, lake Cima d’Asta, lake Terlago, lake Ledro, lakes Colbricon, lake Tenno, lake Agol, lake Tovel and many others.
It is assumed that the bibliographical notes and comments are merged into the following publications:
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- La Cultura Geografica – Illustrated fortnightly review of geography founded and directed along with Renato Biasutti. Published in Florence. The first number is dated 15 January 1899. Only ten issues were published.
- Il Trentino. Physical and anthropological geography essay, Trento, Zippel, 1898, vol. in 8°, illustrated, pp. Xl-326 with 6 tables and one map. Reissued in Ed. Nazionale, 1923, vol. I (Geographical writings).
- Il laghetto di Lavarone nell’Altopiano dei Sette Comuni Vicentini, in collaboration with Leonardo Ricci, ibid. Reissued ibid. (Ed. Nazionale, 1923, vol. I (Geographical writings).)
- Gli studi limnologici italiani, bibliographic note in «Rivista Geografica Italiana», year VI (1899), pp. 32-43. reissued ibid.
- Distribuzione verticale e aggruppamenti dei laghi del Trentino, in «La Cultura Geografica», year I, n. 2, Florence, 1899.
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(Old reference code Ex. 27)
