La pesca in Dalmazia

an Unpublished Manuscript from the State Archives in Zadar

Abstract

Alberto Fortis was a naturalist, researcher, and travel writer who travelled along the eastern Adriatic coast, from Istria to Dalmatia, researching and learning about the Dalmatian coast and its local people. One of his research projects resulted in a relatively unknown manuscript Dissertazione sopra la pesca della Dalmazia. This paper presents the copy of the mentioned manuscript found in the State Archives in Zadar and investigate its authenticity since there are two other existing copies, one stored in Marko Marulić Public Library in Split, and the other included in Aldo Parenzo’s book Un’inchiesta sulla pesca in Istria e Dalmazia. Furthermore, the paper includes a digital transcription of the copy from the State Archives in Zadar, which is also the first complete digital form of the manuscript, as well as its orthographic and morphosyntactic analysis.