Heading to Italy in the Early Modern Period. Francesco Scoto’s Early Modern Italian Travel Manuals Geodataset (1650–1700)

Eva Chodějovská; Josef Münzberger

doi:10.5334/johd.594

Heading to Italy in the Early Modern Period. Francesco Scoto’s Early Modern Italian Travel Manuals Geodataset (1650–1700)

Journal of Open Humanities Data

Volume 12 (2026): Issue 1

By: Eva Chodějovská and Josef Münzberger

Open Access

|Aug 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Francesco (Andrea) Scoto’s guidebook: an overview of editions (state of the art of the survey by March 2026); the editions focussed in this paper are marked in bold. For more sorting options see project website.⁴

LANGUAGE	YEAR OF PUBLICATION	TITLE (INCIPIT)	PLACE & PUBLISHER & YEAR
lat	1600	Itinerarii Italiae rerumq. Romanarum libri tres	Antwerp: Plantin/Moretus, 1600
lat	1601	Itinerarium nobiliorum Italiae regionum, urbium, oppidorum, et locorum	Vicenza: P. Bertelli, 1601
lat	1601	Itinerarium nobiliorum Italiae regionum, urbium, oppidorum, et locorum	Vicenza: F. Bolzetta, 1601
lat	1610	Itinerarium nobiliorum Italiae regionum, urbium, oppidorum, et locorum	Vicenza: P. Bertelli, 1610
lat	1625	Itinerarii Italiae rerumq. Romanarum libri tres	Antwerp: Plantin/Moretus/Meurs, 1625
lat	1655	Itinerarium Italiae	Amsterdam: J. Jansson, 1655
lat	1670	Itinerarium Italiae	Wesel: A. van Hoogenhuysen, 1670
it	1610	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Venezia: F. Bolzetta, 1610
it	1615	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Vicenza: F. Bolzetta, 1615
it	1622	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Vicenza: F. Bolzetta, 1622
it	1629	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: F. Bolzetta, 1629
it	1638	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Vicenza: F. Bolzetta, 1638
it	1643	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: F. Bolzetta, 1643
it	1648/9	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: F. Bolzetta, 1649
it	1650	Itinerario overo nuova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Roma: F. de Rossi, 1650
it	1654	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: M. Cadorin, 1654
it	1659	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: M. Cadorin, 1659
it	1665	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Venezia: G.P. Brigonci, 1665
it	1669	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: M. Cadorin, 1669
it	1670	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: M. Cadorin, 1670
it	1672	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Venezia: G. P. Brigonci, 1672
it	1675	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Venezia: G. P. Brigonci, 1675
it	1675	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: G. Cadorin, 1675
it	1679	Itinerario overo nuova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Venezia: G. P. Brigonci, 1679
it	1688	Itinerario overo nova descrittione de’ viaggi principali d’Italia	Padova: G. Cadorin, 1688
it	1699	Il nuouo itinerario d’Italia	Roma: M. A., P. V. de Rossi, 1699
it	1700	Il nuovo itinerario d’Italia	Roma: M. A., P. V. de Rossi, 1700
it	1717	Il nuovo itinerario d’Italia	Roma: M. A., P. V. de Rossi, 1717
it	1737	Itinerario d’Italia	Roma: F. Amidei, 1737
it	1747	Itinerario d’Italia	Roma: F. Amidei, 1747
it	1761	Itinerario d’Italia	Roma: F. Amidei, 1761
fr	1627	Histoire de l’Italie, contenant la description de ses singularitez	Paris: C. Collet, 1627
eng	1660	Italy, in its original glory, ruine and revival	London: H. Twyford, 1660

Table 2

Table structure designed for extracted data from travel manuals.

ATTRIBUTE	DATA TYPE	ALLOWED VALUES/NOTES	EXAMPLE
Location_original	String	Original printed toponym	a Mola
LocationType	String	Settlement descriptor	borgo
LineType	Controlled vocabulary	location, prose, summa, crossing	location
Location_extracted	String	Standardized extracted name	Mola
RouteDescription	String	Printed route heading	Poste da Roma à Napoli
Page	Integer	Source page number	513
Distance	Decimal	Historical distance value	1
Unit	String	Historical unit	posta
Note	String	Editorial note	by boat
Location_current	String	Modern standardized name	Formia
Location_alt	String	Historical/alternative form	Mola
Geonames_ID	Integer	Persistent GeoNames identifier	3176738
Geonames_lat	Decimal	Latitude (WGS84)	41.25632
Geonames_lon	Decimal	Longitude (WGS84)	13.60888

Overview of the workflow used to produce the dataset: data sources are selected and examined, locations are extracted directly into the dataset’s defined structure, place names are geocoded using a central gazetteer and the GeoNames API, and results pass through quality control before publication.

Table 3

Basic characteristics of the four Scoto datasets. All rows = total table entries, including non-locational LineTypes (“prose”, “summa”, “crossing”); Geocodable rows = entries of LineType “location”; Geocoded = geocodable rows assigned a GeoNames ID and coordinates; Unique places = distinct locations among geocoded rows after deduplicating repeated stops on different routes (e.g., hub towns visited by several routes); Success rate = Geocoded ÷ Geocodable rows.