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107. Rossi, Filippo de.

RITRATTO / DI ROMA ANTICA, / NEL QVALE SONO FIGVRATI
/ I principali Tempij, Theatri, Anfiteatri, Cerchi, Nau- /
machie, Archi Trionfali, Curie, Basiliche, / Colonne, Ordine del Trionfo,
Dignità / Militari, e Ciuili, Riti, Cerimonie / & altre cose notabili. / Aggiuntoui
di nuouo le Vite, & Effigie de'primi / Rè di essa, e le Grandezze
dell'Imperio Ro-/mano; con l'Esplicationi Istoriche de' / più celebri Antiquarij
/ IN ROMA / Appresso Filippo de'Rossi. M. DC. LIV. / Con licenza
de'Superiori.

Small 8vo. Engraved half title (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); dedication (1
leaf); note to reader (1 unnumbered p.); list of contents (4 leaves); text
(1-413); sonnet (1 unnumbered p.); ode (1 unnumbered p.); colophon
(1 unnumbered p.); 126 engraved plates inserted, and numerous woodcut
tailpieces.

Filippo de Rossi (fl.1654) was an Italian architect about whom not
much is known. His Roma antica is, in actuality, a guide to ancient Rome
with many illustrations, including one of the Pantheon.

Kimball (p. 99) says the book entered Jefferson's library between
1785 and 1789. His copy was sold to Congress. See Sowerby for a comment
on Kimball's effort to redate it 1645.

Jefferson ordered it for the University in the section on "Architecture"
of the want list, but there is no record of the library's having
acquired it. The library's present copy is a recent acquisition, the gift of
the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U. Va.

[Not yet catalogued]

M

Sowerby 4192

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Plate CXV. From No. 106. "Pont de Coalbroockdale" (Vol. VII, Pl. CLXXV, p.
588).