First travel of Marco Augusto Costanzi in Egypt

Title
First travel of Marco Augusto Costanzi in Egypt
Description
Marco Augusto Costanzi decided to travel to Egypt with the aim of collecting ancient objects together with the French doctor Dussap. The journey began in the first decade of the 1800s.
Travel type
Diplomatic
Historical period
Early modern period
Departure Place
Venice - Italy
Departure Year
1810
Arrival Place
Livorno - Italy
Arrival Year
1820
Observations on the travel
With the end of tome 10 Costanzi ends his first trip and returns to Italy on January 16, 1820. Until September he remains between Rome, Naples, Venice, Trieste and Vienna, and then on December 16, 1820, he travels to Smyrna.
The dots on the map indicate the places where sound and music events were described. They don't represent travel stages.
Sources
5
Events description
48
1. Cavalry accompanying them with drummers and fifes
2. Military band plays drums and fifes in Aleppo
3. Musical talents of the De Picciotto's daughter
4. Arabs speak out loud
5. Turks speak out loud
6. Jews as a raging torrent
7. The cries of the jackals
8. The jackals in Alexandria
9. Shouts of boys outside the mosque
10. Costanzi's hearing problem
11. The cafenè with dancers
12. Egyptians' love songs
13. Women and men sing and dance in Rosetta
14. Singing or whistling increases the pace of camels
15. The harmonic sound of young females in Cairo
16. Songs and music at the Baramos Monastery
17. The bell of the Coptic monastery
18. The bell of the dè Soriani monastery
19. Talking out loud moments
20. Music accompanying the procession of the bride on the camel
21. Animal noises in Cairo
22. Dances and costumes of dancers in a Cairo neighborhood
23. The musical instruments of the bridal procession
24. The bride's procession after she was led to the bathhouse
25. Music in the ceremony of circumcision of children
26. The cries that communicate the heights of the Nile
27. The sad songs of working men collecting water at the well
28. The echo of stones thrown into wells
29. Music and singing for the ceremony of circumcision of children
30. The sound of the voice of Nubians and black slaves
31. The noise of the cannons caused the hippos to migrate
32. The costumes of the Thebaid females
33. Sound of Memnon's giants
34. The cry of the sheep and the noises from the beaks
35. The bleating of the goats of the Saïd
36. The bursting of rifles troubling the crocodiles
37. Prostitute dancers in a Café
38. Arriving from the Kiaschef amid shouts from the audience
39. A saying of a bernian poet
40. The reverberation in the mountains
41. Ramadan eve procession
42. Entertainment during the eve of Ramadan
43. Farmers sing while working
44. Consul's daughter at the piano
45. Costanzi sings at the home of Consul Lazzari
46. Costanzi sings accompanied by piano and mandolin
47. Entertainment at the home of Consul Lazzari
48. The departure amid the people's cries of gratitude
Narrators
1
Participants
0
Places
15
Sounds
77
How to quote
Murarotto E., "First travel of Marco Augusto Costanzi in Egypt" (Travel), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2023 01 19.

doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.33

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