Deciphering the Land: Artistic Cartography in the Illustrated <i>Cabreo</i> of the Congregation of the Gentlemen of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Tivoli, Italy (1661–1808)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1661, the Congregation of the Gentlemen of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, a lay pious organization devoted to religious and charitable services in Tivoli, Italy, commissioned from land surveyor Gismondo Stracha an illustrated cabreo of its endowments. Cabrei were private estate records, frequently commissioned by large estate owners in Europe between the fifteenth and the nineteenth century. Illustrated cabrei, such as this one from Tivoli, were elegantly decorated and included watercolour maps and drawings of lands, vegetation, and buildings. They could indeed be works of art, perceived by the landowners not only as administrative documents, but also as artistic testimonies of the commissioners’ legacy in the territory. The private cadastral maps included in illustrated cabrei predate the implementation of land surveying and mapping in the national land registration systems in Europe in the mid-eighteenth century. Unlike public cadastral records, the maps in cabrei combine geometric accuracy with artistic flair and are accompanied by extensive annotations and regular updates to facilitate the management of the estate. The cabreo of the Congregation of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is therefore invaluable in documenting the evolution of landscape, economy, cartography, and social life in Tivoli throughout the centuries.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".