Main entry:

Venuti, Ridolfino, 1705-1763.

Title & Author:

Accurata, e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichità di Roma/ dell'abate Ridolfino Venuti Cortonese, Presidente all' Antichità Romane, e membro onorario della regia società degli antiquari di Londra.

Publication:

In Roma : Presso Gio. Battista Bernabò e Giuseppe Lazzarini, MDCCLXIII [1763]

Description:

2 volumes (xxxvi, 143, [1]; viii, 143, [3] pages, [1], 96 leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 folded map ; 30 cm (4to)

Notes:
The work contains 96 engraved plates, 59 in part 1 and 37 in part 2. Plates signed by Francesco Piranesi, Jean-Laurent LeGeay, Jérôme Charles Bellicard, Philothée François Duflos, and Niccolò Mogalli. Some of the plates are signed "Piranesi inc[ise] and have been attributed to Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Engraved title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, catchwords, ornated initials.
Separate paging: part 1: xxxvi, 143 pages ; part 2: viii, 143, [3] pages.
Includes 96 etched plates, and a folded map of the Antichità di Rome engraved by Niccolò Mogalli and Giovanni Petroschi.
Pagination: part 1: xxxvi, 143, [1] p., 59 leaves of plates numbered 1-59, [1] folded plan; part 2: viii, 143, [3] p., 37 leaves of plates numbered 60-96.
"Con licenza de' superiori e privilegio Pontifico."
Each volume has separate t.p. and half-title.
Ill.: 96 full-page etchings, by G.B. Piranesi (20, 19 signed), N. Mogalli (21 signed or initialed), F.P. Duflos (8 signed) and others; Piranesi's and some others repeated from his Raccolte di varie vedute di Roma... (Roma, 1752), the previous ed. of which was published as Varie vedute di Roma... (Roma, 1748). Cf. Hind: Piranesi, p. 76-78. Large map on folded leaf by N. Mogalli and G. Petroschi; t.p. vignette; small cut, v.1, p. vi; 3 head- and tailpieces; 2 pictorial initials.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schudt: Guide di Roma, p. 146 and no. 769
Giesecke: Piranesi, 10b.
Ex libris bookplate of Albert Hooper on front pastedown.
Ex libris bookplate of Charles Kent, Vicar of Ludford, on front pastedown.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "À la découverte de Rome: Piranèse et ses contemporains = Exploring Rome: Piranesi and his contemporaries", Centre canadien d'architecture, Aug. 17, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994.

Subject:

Buildings
Antiquities
Travel
Rome (Italy) Antiquities.
Rome (Italy) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc. Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italy) Description and travel.
Rome (Italie) Antiquités.
Rome (Italie) Descriptions et voyages.
Rome (Italie) Descriptions et voyages Ouvrages avant 1800.
Italy Rome
Rome (Italy) Antiquities, Roman.

Form/genre:

Early works

Added entries:

Piranesi, Francesco, 1756-1810, engraver.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778, engraver.
Legeay, Jean-Laurent, active 18th century, engraver.
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, engraver.
Duflos, Philothée François, 1710-1746, engraver.
Petroschi, Giovanni, active 18th century.
Bernabò, Giovanni Battista, 1702-1769, printer.
Lazzarini, Giuseppe, 1702-1780, printer.
Mogalli, Niccolò, 1723-1792.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Mogalli, Niccolò, b. 1723.
Italy Rome.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 131428
Call No.: W213
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 131427
Call No.: W213
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available