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38. Donati, Alessandro.

ALEXANDRI DONATI / E SOCIETATE JESU / ROMA / VETUS
AC RECENS / Utriusque AEdificiis / ILLUSTRATA. / In multis
locis aucta, castigatior reditta, indice locupletissimo, / & Figuris AEneis
illustrata. / EDITIO ULTIMA. / AMSTELAEDAMI, / Prostant
apud Janssonio-Waesbergios / & Joannem Wolters. 1695. / Cum
Privilegio.

4to. Engraved frontispiece (1 leaf); two-color title page (1 leaf); dedication
(2 leaves); note to reader (1 unnumbered p.); index of chapters,
with notes to binders and note of privilege, each 1 leaf, misbound within
index (3 unnumbered pp.); text, with 90 engravings, of which 3 are folding
maps (1-356); poetic quotations (1 unnumbered p.); indexes (19
unnumbered pp.).

Alessandro Donati (1584-1640) was an Italian professor and antiquary.

The first edition of this book was in 1633. It gives a description
of ancient Roman buildings with many quotations from ancient authors.
The engraved plates, all unsigned, show the buildings both in their
seventeenth-century condition and in the author's restorations, with some
illustrations from coins. The frontispiece is an allegory of Rome, pagan
and Christian (see Plate XXXII).

Jefferson's own copy, acquired about 1778 according to Kimball
(p. 93), was sold to Congress. He ordered the book for the University
in the section on "Architecture" of the want list, but there is no record
of its having been received before his death. The library's present copy
is a recent acquisition, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation.

U. Va.

*DG63.D67.1695

M

Sowerby 4195

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Plate XXXII. From No. 38. Frontispiece.