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An unknown hero of two worlds


Companies of Romagna unknown even in the homelands, but a national hero overseas

Son of the revolution which swept Europe 's, Codazzi was born in Lugo di Romagna in 1793. imbued with the ' idealism typical of that' era, the young man enlists in those same armies of Napoleon that he hated his father so much. This allowed him access to the theoretical and practical school of artillery in Pavia, which will learn what will be its fundamental scientific background in his future professional career overseas. During the first decade of the nineteenth century then it also holds the honor on the battlefields of Europe. After having successfully participated in some of the biggest theaters of war, Codazzi found himself along with many others in the lurch, after known the 'bitter taste of defeat and the demise of the Napoleonic dream. Being now a professional soldier still unable to find employment as a technician at a battalion of volunteers from Genoa, operated under the British flag. In one summer he obtained the rank of lieutenant and, after having discharged, excellent clearance that invested in now 'purchase of goods for export to the' Ottoman Empire.
His business unfortunately fails before it even begins. During the trip, in fact, the Romagna shipwrecked at Ithaca. Sull 'island Codazzi had to invent different professions in order to survive and reorganize in the meantime, the resumption of his journey to Constantinople.
finally arrived in the capital of the now dilapidated Ottoman Empire, Augustine met in a gambling den with another Romagna co Napoleonic history, Constant Ferrari, with whom he tried unsuccessfully a gig as an officer or addestrat hour military exercises in Persian.
After various ref Jutes Romagna the two decided to leave Europe and pass the ocean. To do embarked on an endless journey that winds through much of Eastern and Northern Europe to go so far as the little O in Ireland, from where they sailed for the United States. landed in Baltimore moved to the Caribbean where, together with the 'French admiral Aury fought for five years as a privateer from the Latin American insurgents. As military professionals with war experience came more than ever in fact welcome in a land where fought for independence from Spain.
Codazzi Ferrari and thus actively participate in all 'Indep ndenza English American colonies and even managed to scrape together a considerable fortune in the meantime. This allowed them to buy once they return, a held in Italy in at Massalombarda (RA). But an unfortunate financial management of revenue combined with the friction that had not come to develop between the two, quickly rejected them in a precarious economic situation.
While Ferrari decided to go and fight for the 'independence of Greece, Codazzi we re-embarked for South America. Indeed, it was now certain that his wishes could be realized only in those distant lands.
Back in ' the Colombian army was responsible for conducting the topographical measurements of the area of \u200b\u200bMaracaibo. The beautiful results obtained in this work was the springboard for his career in South America. Following the fragmentation of Gran Colombia in 1830, the President of the Venezuelan state newborn, Jose Antonio Paez, appointed him Chief of Staff and entrusted him with the preparation of an atlas of the eleven provinces of the newly formed nation.
While he devoted himself to collecting Codazzi was engaged as head of Staff to fight several times against the local warlords, the so-called caudillos.
In 1839 Agostino Codazzi is finally able to give to the press his "Prospect of a plano general de Venezuela ...". The work, which will stretch the physical Atlas de Venezuela y political, and Resumen de la Geographic de Venezuela, is a work in its full geographical guide to the territory, reminiscent of perspective and summary tables in order to clarify the various facets of Territorial Research.
Thanks to great success at the Academy of Science of Paris, is invited by the Romagna Société de Géographie and, on French soil, receives praise (flattering those expressed by Alexander von Humboldt), honors and awards for work that finally fixed the precise boundaries on the map and a complete description of the new American state.
Codazzi In Paris, prompted by their own government, he conceived a project of colonization of Venezuela with families from Europe, especially Germany, which commits him once back home. Thank you, to his profound knowledge of the area, Augustine sets to work by submitting the special plan of population growth. After a long search for suitable sites to accommodate settlements from the continent where he was born and where would never come back, Codazzi locates in a valley near the Aragua area suitable for the setting of immigrants and start the project of colonization.
hidden among the forests of the Cordillera de la Costa, approximately 60 km west of Caracas, there is the curious mountain town of Colonia Tovar, built in Tyrolean style, where even now these countries living in the descendants of those settlers called by Codazzi.
This is worthy work and unprecedented the Italian was appointed governor of the province of Barinas, a post he will have to leave suddenly due to one of many coups that will become typical in the history of South America.
taken refuge in Santa Fe de Bogota, Codazzi is forced to fall back again on a military post and only later, in 1850-52 will be able to resume his research and his geographical explorations, institutionalized by the formation of the "Comisión Chorographic" led by him.
From London comes a request for inspection while the area for construction of a transoceanic canal you already fabled for years. Augustine of course accepts the task and describes in detail his idea of \u200b\u200ba passage through the river network of the territory. Codazzi in 1854 had already identified the best path on which to twist the future channel: this will then be built decades after following all the guidelines outlined by Codazzi in his numerous studies, but excluding any official mention.
In 1855 a new coup enters into the life of the Romagna, which back again when the assignment is distinguished military being promoted to general. His work incorporates geographic again after the war and focuses on the Andean provinces of Colombia.
's life Codazzi continued for years in constant exploration of the Amazon and Andean regions of Colombia and Ecuador in 1857 and the work reaches its climax with the publication of a general geographic area of \u200b\u200b600 pages. And 'the epitome of a long series of discoveries. And it is the prologue of the end. Tireless, he leaves for yet another exploration in the Andean Cordillera.
will be the last great adventure, the unhealthy forests infested by malaria is that Augustine will be hit by a deadly fever, which kills the February 7, 1859 at Espiritu Santu, now "Village Codazzi."