The Società Geografica Italiana formed as a

geographic Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...

society A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soci ...

in 1867 in

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, Italy, and moved to

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

in 1872. As of 1924 it operated from headquarters in

Villa Mattei The Villa Celimontana (previously known as Villa Mattei) is a villa on the Caelian Hill in Rome, best known for its gardens. Its grounds cover most of the valley between the Aventine Hill and the Caelian. Location The Villa Celimontana is situa ...

in the Celio rione. The society began publishing a journal in 1868, and also sponsored scientific expeditions, such as one to

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in 1876, led by

Orazio Antinori Orazio Antinori (28 October 1811 – 26 August 1882) was an Italian explorer and zoologist. Antinori was born in Perugia (then in the Papal States) and studied natural history in Perugia and Rome. Afterwards he collaborated with Charles Lucien Bo ...

. In 1892 its members were among the first participants of the triennial .

Presidents of the society

Cristoforo Negri Cristoforo Negri (1809-1896) was an Italian geographer, economist and diplomat. Biography Cristoforo Negri was born in Padua in 1809. He became a professor of constitutional law at the University of Padua. Following the upheavals of 1848 he fl ...

, 1867-1872 *

Cesare Correnti Cesare Correnti (January 3, 1815 – October 4, 1888) was an Italian revolutionary and politician. Life He was born in Milan of a poor but noble family. While employed in the public debt administration, he flooded Lombardy with revolutionary pamph ...

, 1873-1879 * Onorato Caetani, 1879-1887 * Francesco Nobili Vitelleschi, 1887-1891 *

Giacomo Doria Marquis Giacomo Doria (1 November 1840 – 19 September 1913) was an Italian naturalist, botanist, herpetologist, and politician. He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his d ...

, 1891-1900 * , 1900-1906 * Antonino di San Giuliano, 1906 * Raffaele Cappelli, 1907-1915 *

Scipione Borghese Scipione Borghese (; 1 September 1577 – 2 October 1633) was an Italian Cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio and the artist Bernini. His legacy is the establ ...

, 1916-1921 *

Paolo Thaon di Revel Paolo Camillo Thaon, Marquess of Revel (10 June 1859 – 24 March 1948), latterly titled with the honorary title of 1st Duke of the Sea, was an Italian admiral of the ''Regia Marina'' during World War I and later a politician. Early life an ...

, 1921-1923 *

Luigi Federzoni Luigi Federzoni (27 September 1878 – 24 January 1967) was a twentieth-century Italian nationalist and later Fascist politician. Biography Federzoni was born in Bologna. Educated at the university there, he took to journalism and literature, a ...

, 1923-1926 * Pietro Lanza di Scalea, 1926-1928 * , 1928-1932 *

Corrado Zoli Corrado Zoli (3 January 1877 – 8 December 1951) was an Italian writer, diplomat and explorer of Africa, born in Palermo. He was the colonial governor of Italian Eritrea from 1928 to 1930. Principal works *''La guerra turco-bulgara. Studio criti ...

, 1933-1944 * , 1944-1945 * , 1945-1955 *

Giovanni Boaga Giovanni Boaga (February 28, 1902 – November 17, 1961) was an Italian mathematician and geodesy professor. He was born in Trieste and died in Tripoli, Libya. His Gauss-Boaga Projection is the standard projection used in Italian topography by ...

, 1955-1961 * Riccardo Riccardi, 1962-1969 * Ferdinando Gribaudi, 1969-1971 * , 1971-1977 * Ernesto Massi, 1978-1987 * Gaetano Ferro, 1987-1997 * , 1997-2013 * Sergio Conti, 2013-2015 * , 2015–present

References

* This article incorporates information from the

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Bibliography

Issued by the society

* 1868- *

About the society

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Images

File:Societa geografica italiana 295.jpg,

Villa Celimontana The Villa Celimontana (previously known as Villa Mattei) is a villa on the Caelian Hill in Rome, best known for its gardens. Its grounds cover most of the valley between the Aventine Hill and the Caelian. Location The Villa Celimontana is situat ...

, Rome, which houses the society, 2007 File:Societa geografica italiana 302.jpg, Entrance to the society's offices in the Villa Celimontana, 2007 File:1904 office of Società Geografica Italiana in Rome.png, Office, 1904 File:DSCF38982.jpg, Photo archive of the society, 2007

External links

Official site
* Società Geografica Italiana
Photo Archive
(official site) * 1867 establishments in Italy Geographic societies Rome R. XIX Celio Organizations established in 1867 Learned societies of Italy {{italy-org-stub