THE GEOGRAPHICAL CLIMATOLOGY IN BRAZIL AND ITALY

In this article the author attempts to justify his interest in the topic of his research project developed at the University of Turin (Italy) and the reasons which led him to compare, in his study, the influences of Mario Pinna on Italian Geographical Climatology and of Carlos Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro on Brazilian Geographical Climatology. Therefore, he exposes the guiding principles of this area of knowledge, highlighting the contributions of frenchmen Maximilien Sorre and Pierre Pédelaborde, which in particular, proposed new approaches to weather and climate studies and influenced the researches conducted, in this area, by geographers. Consequently, since them, the geographical studies of climate began to develope differently than those carried out by meteorologists and other researchers of climatology. The author, in addition to revealing the main results of his extensive bibliographic survey of Italian scientific books and journals, contrasts them to works produced in Brazil and, in his final considerations, ponders about the need to impart a genetic quality to the classification of Earth's climates.