Libri quattro dell'antichita della citta di Roma

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Label

Libri quattro dell'antichita della citta di Roma

Statement of responsibility

raccolte sotto brevita da diversi antichi et moderni scrittori per m. Bernardo Gamucci da San Gimignano ; con nuouo ordine fedelmente descritte, & rappresentate con bellissime figure, nel modo che quelle a' tempi nostri si ritrouano

Title variation

• Libri qvattro dell'antichità della città di Roma
• Antichità della città di Roma

Creator

• Gamucci, Bernardo

Contributor

• Dosio, Giovanni Antonio, 1533-approximately 1609
• Varisco, Giovanni, fl. 1558-1590
• Feltrinelli, Giannalisa

Artist

• Dosio, Giovanni Antonio, 1533-approximately 1609

Former owner

• Feltrinelli, Giannalisa

Printer

• Varisco, Giovanni, fl. 1558-1590

Subject

• Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800
• Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks | Early works to 1800
• Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
• Guidebooks -- Italy | Venice -- 1565

Genre

• Early works to 1800
• Guidebooks

Language

ita

Summary

First edition of a guide to Rome, especially popular during the second half of the 16th century, with later editions appearing in 1569, 1580, and 1585.

Cataloging source

YUS

Citation location within source

• G-203
• p. 290
• entry 1413
• 711
• CNCE 20382
• G-390

Citation source

• Adams
• BM STC Italian, 1465-1600
• Gamba, B. Serie dei testi di lingua
• Schudt, L. Guide di Roma
• EDIT 16
• Rossetti, S. Rome: a bibliography

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plans

Index

no index present

LC call number

DG62

LC item number

.G35 1565

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

Gamucci's guide is notable for the new information he added to that supplied by Fulvio's Antiquitates Urbis, his inclusion of the first notable series of views illustrating a guidebook, and for the originality of his discussion of the Villa Giulia, which suggests a firsthand acquaintance with Bartolommeo Ammanati. See E.S. De Beer, "The development of the guide-book until the early nineteenth century," in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 3rd ser., v. XV (1952): 35-46, especially p. 40