Antonio Gaspare Campana (Portici, 1772 or 1775 or 1776 – 1841)
Son of an engraver at the Naples Royal Press, he was a student of the famous cartographer Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni. He passed out at the Military Academy of Naples in 1799 and was named a captain of the military engineers in the Neapolitan Republic. On the return of the king, he was imprisoned for 8 months and a half, then deported to France for 20 years. He arrived in Milan on 24 July 1800 and was appointed captain 2nd class in the Cisalpine engineering corps. He then took an exam on 19 January 1802 and became a captain 2nd class in the topographer corps on 7 September. On 23 August 1804 he was appointed section chief, interim director of the War Depot, a post he had to defend in a duel, and which was confirmed on 12 March 1807 and again on 23 January 1811. On 21 September 1809 he became squadron chief, on 7 August 1813 he was promoted to major. In 1814 he was retained at the head of the Austrian Istituto Geografico Militare austriaco, promoted to colonel and knight of the Austrian States in 1828, major general in 1833. The Istituto mapped the entire region of North Italy, then moved to Vienna in 1839 (cf. MSA WO 1440. Rossi, Massimo. 2007. «Antonio Gaspare Campana», in Cartografi veneti: mappe, uomini e istituzioni per l’immagine e il governo del territorio, ed. Vladimiro Valerio. Padua: Editoriale Programma, 2007: 222-224).