“Tibi propono, amice Lector”: the narrative structure of Rudjer Boskovic’s account of his travels in the Papal States between 1750 and 1752

This paper deals with the analysis of the narrative structure of Rudjer Boskovic’s account of his travels in the Papal States between 1750 and 1752. The first edition of the account appeared in Latin, De litteraria expeditione per Pontificam ditione ad dimentiendos meridiani gradus et corrigendam mappam geographicam, iussu et auspiciis Benedicti XIV (Rome 1755), and the second, updated, fifteen years later, in French, entitled Voyage astronomique et geographique, dans l’État de l’Eglise, entrepris par l’ordre et sous les auspices du Pape Benoit XIV, Pour mesurer deux dégrés du méridien, & corriger la Carte de l’Etat ecclésiastique (Paris 1770).