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[Edifices Antiques De Rome., Italian and French., 1822.]
Variant Title
Edifizi Antichi Di Roma Misurati
Imprint
Roma: MDCCCXXII -, Presso Vincenzo Poggioli Stampatore Camerale Con Permesso De' Superiori.
Physical Description
xii, 116 p., 137 pl. (some dble.); 420 mm. (Folio).
General Note
The plates are numbered continuously in 'Arabic' numerals, and also in separate sequences of Roman numerals, one sequence for each of the buildings shown. Plate 11 carries the Roman numeral XVII, while plate 17 carries the Roman numeral XI.
Contents
[T.p.] - Agli Amatori Delle Belle Antiche Fabbriche Romane L'Avvocato Carlo Fea Commissario Delle Antichità; Imprimatur - [Dedic. by Desgodetz] - Avis Sur Cette Nouvelle Édition, A Paris M.DCC.LXXIX - Prefazione Di M. Desgodetz / Préface ... ; Nota; Indice De Capitoli ... - [Text] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
R.T. Ridley states that the translation was by Stefano Piale.
All plates are signed as drawn by A. Desgodetz and engraved by V(inc). Feoli.
This edition reprints Desgodetz's dedication to Colbert.
References
W. Herrmann, 'Antoine Desgodets and the Académie Royale d'Architecture', in Art bulletin, 40:1 (1958 March), p. 23-53.
On Carlo Fea see R.T. Ridley, The Pope's archaeologist: the life and times of Carlo Fea (2000).
Summary Note
The work had first been published in French only in Paris in 1682, and had soon been accepted as the most accurate account of the ancient buildings of Rome.
An English translation, The ancient buildings of Rome, had been published in 1795.
According to Ridley, 525 copies of this Italian edition were printed.
Provenance
The front pastedown carries the 19th-century armorial bookplate of George John Vulliamy, and the 19th-century bookplate of George Aitchison, A.R.A.(on which the date 1887 has been inscribed in ink). It is also inscribed in ink 'George Aitchison 16 March 1887'. Bequeathed from the library of Sir Edwin Cooper, 1961.
Copy Note
Imperfect. The text calls for 25 chapters, but the Academy's copy has only five (pp. 1-40, pl. 1-37), describing the Pantheon and the temples of Bacchus, Faunus and Vesta in Rome and that of Vesta at Tivoli.
Binding Note
19th-century half calf, black cloth-covered boards; brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Édifices Antiques De Rome', spine lettered 'Desgodetz.' and 'Rome 1822'.
Subject
Architecture, Roman - Temples - Triumphal arches - Monuments - Amphitheatres - Baths - Public buildings - Italy - Rome - History
Art history - France - 17th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 19th century