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Roma antica, e moderna, o sia, Nuova descrizione di tutti gl'edificj antichi, e moderni, tanto sagri, quanto profani della citta ́di Roma / formata con l'autorità del Cardinal Baronio, Ciacconio, Bosio, Panciroli, Marliani, Panvinio, Donati, Nardini, Grevio, ed altri più classici autori, sì antichi che moderni ; abbellita con duecento e più figure di rame, e con curiose notizie istoriche ; distinta in 14 rioni secondo l'ultimo ripartimento, fattone per comandamento di N.S. Benedetto XIV felicemente regnante ; divisa in tre tomi ; dedicata all'e[minentissi]mo et r[everendissi]o principe il signor cardinale Silvio Valenti ....
Main entry:

Roisecco, Gregorio.

Title & Author:

Roma antica, e moderna, o sia, Nuova descrizione di tutti gl'edificj antichi, e moderni, tanto sagri, quanto profani della citta ́di Roma / formata con l'autorità del Cardinal Baronio, Ciacconio, Bosio, Panciroli, Marliani, Panvinio, Donati, Nardini, Grevio, ed altri più classici autori, sì antichi che moderni ; abbellita con duecento e più figure di rame, e con curiose notizie istoriche ; distinta in 14 rioni secondo l'ultimo ripartimento, fattone per comandamento di N.S. Benedetto XIV felicemente regnante ; divisa in tre tomi ; dedicata all'e[minentissi]mo et r[everendissi]o principe il signor cardinale Silvio Valenti ....

Publication:

In Roma : Appresso Gregorio Roisecco, mercante di libri in Piazza Navona, MDCCL [1750]
[Rome] : Nella Stamperia Puccinelli, [1750]

Description:

3 volumes : illustrations (engravings), maps ; 17 cm (8vo)

Notes:
Each volume has special added title page. Title, volume 3: Descrizione delli riti, guerre più celebri, e famiglie più illustri degl' antichi Romani ... con la cronologìa in fine dei re, consoli, imperatori, et dei sommi pontefici romani.
Signatures: [Vol. I]: pi² a⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Ii⁸ (Ii1+Ii*) Kk-Ss⁸ ( -Ss8); [Vol. II]: pi² A-Z⁸ Aa-Rr⁸ Ss-Tt⁴ Vv⁶; [Vol. III]: A-Z⁸ Aa-Kk⁸.
Pagination: [Vol. I]: [2], xvi, 654 pages, [19] folded leaves of plates; [Vol. II]: [2], 694 pages, [12] leaves of plates; [Vol. III]: [4], 523, [5] pages, [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).
Engravings: text lavishly illustrated with engravings of the buildings, churches, piazzas, etc of ancient and modern Rome; Volume I includes engraved frontispiece with arms of Cardinal Silvio Valenti, to whom work is dedicated, 68 engravings in the text in addition to the 19 folding plates, of which two are folding maps; Vol. II has 82 engravings in the text; and Vol. III, eight.
Volume III includes [4] pages of advertisements for other books sold by Roisecco, with title "Catalogo de' libri che sono in maggior numero appresso Gregorio Roisecco mercante di libri in Roma."
Includes indexes.
Vol. 3 has title: Descrizione delli riti, guerre piu' celebri, e famiglie piu' illustri degl'antichi Romani ... .
Vol. 2 has added engraved t.p.: Descrizione di Roma antica e moderna.
Vol. 3 has added engraved t.p.: Descrizione de riti degli antichi Romani.
Dedication signed: Gregorio Roisecco.
Pagination: v. 1: [2], xvi, 654 [i.e. 656] p., [20] leaves of plates (19 folded); v. 2: [2], 694 p., [13] leaves of plates (12 folded); v. 3: [4], 523 p., [3] leaves of plates (1 folded)
Leaf 498* inserted between p. 498-499.
Plates include added engraved title pages.
Initials; tail-pieces.
Cicognara, 3855A
Schudt, L. Guide di Roma, 207
Summary:

Second Roisecco edition, issued as a three-volume set in 1750 (the first Roisecco edition, issued in two volumes, appeared in 1739) describing and illustrating the ancient, medieval, Renaissance and Baroque monuments and buildings of Rome. This publication marks the culmination of a long series of developments in illustrated guides to Rome. Beginning with the guidebooks produced by Girolamo Francini and his heirs in the late 16th century, pilgrims and tourists to the once-again-thriving Eternal City could purchase increasingly more accurate guidebooks to the ancient and modern marvels of Rome. In the late 17th century, building on the work of Pompilio Totti, Michelangelo and Piervicenzo de Rossi published their Descrizione di Roma." In subsequent editions, the "Descrizione" grew to include the redacted works of various learned authorities. The present 3-volume production, the third to be published by Gregorio Roisecco, is based on the final de Rossi edition of 1727 but has been further expanded to include a third volume

Subject:

Art museums Italy Rome.
Antiquities
Art museums
Travel
Rome (Italy) Guidebooks Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italy) Antiquities Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italy) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italie) Antiquités Ouvrages avant 1800.
Rome (Italie) Descriptions et voyages Ouvrages avant 1800.
Italy Rome
Rome (Italy) Description and travel
Rome (Italy) Antiquities

Form/genre:

woodcuts (prints)
engravings (prints)
Early works
Guidebooks
Gravures.

Added entries:

Roisecco, Gregorio, publisher, bookseller.
Puccinelli, Ottavio, active 18th century, printer.
Roisecco, Gregorio
Stamperia Puccinelli, printer.
Trissino Collection
Italy Rome.

Nuova descrizione di tutti gl'edifici antichi, e moderni, tanto sagri, quanto profani della citta ́di Roma

Holdings:

Location: Library cage y trissino 1722
Call No.: ITYB32N1699 ITN1699; ID:85-B3438
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library cage y trissino 1721
Call No.: ITYB32N1699 ITN1699; ID:85-B3438
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library cage y trissino 1720
Call No.: ITYB32N1699 ITN1699; ID:85-B3438
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library main y 1725
Call No.: IDY; ID:85-B3438
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main y 1724
Call No.: IDY; ID:85-B3438
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main y 1723
Call No.: IDY; ID:85-B3438
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available

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