Splendore dell antica e moderna Roma nel qvale si rappresentano tutti i principali tempii, teatri, anfiteatri, cerchi, naumachie, archi trionfali, obelischi, palagii, terme, curie, basiliche, fatti delli ré, consoli, dittatori, & imperadori romani; dignità ciuili, e militari; ordine de' trionfi, nomi di tutti i trionfanti, sacrificio militare; colonna Traiana, colonna Antonina, colonna milliaria, colonna rostrata, & colonna bellica; con li più segnalati giardini de gli antichi, e moderni Romani; & altre cose notabili; con fatti, & imprese di quelli, da'quali sono stati eretti, e dedicati. Et in questa vltima impressione abbellito di molti disegni antichi, e moderni; & aggiuntoui le descrittioni delle figure cauate dall'antichi medaglie de gl'imperadori, in quatto linguagi latino, italiano, tedesco, e francese, per vtilità commune dato alle stampe da Giovanni Alto, Svizzero da Lvcerna ...

Main entry:

Lauro, Giacomo, active 17th century.

Title & Author:

Publication:

In Roma : Nella stamparia d'Andrea Fei, MDCXLI [1641]

Description:

4 v. in 1 (ca. 190 leaves) : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 24 x 35 cm.

Notes:
Descriptive text in Latin engraved at bottom of each plate; plates of pts. 1-3 have also descriptive text in Italian, German and French printed on versos.
Added engr. t.p.: Antiqvae vrbis splendor ... opera & industria Iacobi Lauri Romani in æscisa atque edita. Addita est breuis ... hoc insequenti anno 1630 reperiutur ... Romæ, 1612.
Pts. 2-4 have engr. title pages. Pt. 2: Antiqvitatvm vrbis liber secvndvs ... Romæ, 1613. Pt. 3: Antiqvæ vrbis splendoris coplementv ... Romæ, 1615. Pt. 4: Antiqvæ vrbis vestigia qvæ nvnc extant ... Romæ, 1628.
CCA copy lacks 5 of the numbered plates but has three extra unnumbered plates found in variant copies of this edition. Plate 10 is repeated.

Subject:

Architecture Rome.
Antiquities.
Architecture.
Travel.
Rome (Italy) Description and travel.
Rome (Italy) History.
Rome (Italy) Antiquities.
Rome (Italie) Descriptions et voyages.
Rome (Italie) Histoire.
Rome (Italie) Antiquités.
Italy Rome.
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Alto, Giovanni Ridolfo.
Antiqvae vrbis splendor.
Antiquae urbis splendor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 143355
Call No.: W130
Status: Available

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