La Misura dell'Eldorado « - Altair4 Multimedia S.r.l.

The biography and works of Agostino Codazzi is a multimedia project developed (both in Italian and Spanish languages) consisting of a CD-Rom (later expanded to the DVD version) and an informative website with the same content as the digital format. This project is part of the multimedia series “The Measure of Eldorado: The Life and enterprises of the Emilian-Romagna in tropical America”.

More known in America than in Italy, the figure of Augustin Codazzi meet the salient characteristics  from a Romagna man: curiosity,  spirit of adventure, generosity and common sense.
Soldat, traveler and man of science, Codazzi lived in a compressed period of the last gleams Enlightenment and the rise of positivism, including the French Revolution and the great social and economic crisis that ravaged Europe in the mid-nineteenth century.
He lived in the romantic era, and  romanticism borrowed a taste for adventure and heroic gesture, the pleasure of solitude and charm of the unknown, respect for nature and faith in man. But Codazzi also knew how to make their own pressures that characterized the Enlightenment rationalist. It is exactely this fusion that comes from the great geographer of tropical America.