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A Description of the Journey of the Saxon King Friedrich August through Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro in 1838

At the heart of this presentation will be the work of pharmacist, botanist and naturalist Bartolomeo Biasoletto (1793–1858), who described the journey of Saxon King Friedrich August through Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro in the spring of 1838. It has been published in the original in Italian: Relatione del viaggio fatto nella primavera dell 'anno 1838. dalla Maestá del Re Federico Augusto di Sassonia nell Istria, Dalmazia e Montenegro (Trieste, 264 p.). According to the Foreword to the German translation (Reise Sr. Majestät des Königs Friedrich August von Sachsen durch Istrien, Dalmatien und Montenegro im Frühjahr 1838, Dresden, 1842, p. 148), the work aroused great interest among his contemporaries. In this paper, the focus is primarily on the botanical journey of the Saxon King Friedrich August. In the nineteenth century there were frequent and popular descriptions of travels through Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro in which nature, architecture, history, culture and customs were usually described. In them, travellers / writers from Western Europe most often presented what was seen by focusing on the contrast between the urban coastal belt with its ancient heritage and the rural continental hinterland. Although often visited as part of a single trip, these countries were not perceived as part of the same world. In the eyes of Western European writers, these were in some ways ‘newly discovered’ countries on different sides of the ‘civilisation border’. Istria and Dalmatia were then considered as a part of the ‘civilised West’ within the Habsburg Monarchy, and Montenegro, which was within the Ottoman Empire, as a part of ‘Wild Europe’. This presentation will analyze a text describing the journey of a Saxon king whose primary interest was botany through this area on both sides of the ‘West’ and ‘East’ borders.

Saxony, Istria, Dalmatia, Montenegro, botany

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