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Giacomo Lauro; Giovanni Alto : Splendore dell Antica e Moderna Roma nel Quale si Rappresentano Tutti i principali Tempii, Teatri, Anfiteatri, Cerchi, Naumachie, Archi Trionfali, Obelischi, Palagii, Terme, Curie, Basiliche, Fatti della Re, Consoli, Dittatori, & Imperadori Romani dignita civili, e militari, ordine de’ trionfi, nomi di tutti i trionfanti, sacrificio militare, colonna Traiana, colonna Antonina, colonna milliaria, colonna rostrata, & colonna bellica, con li piu segnalati giardini de gli antichi, e moderni Romani, & alter cose notabili, con fatti, & imprese di quelli, da’quali sono stati eretti, e dedicati : et in questa ultima impressione abbellito di molti disegni antichi, e moderni, & aggiuntoui le descrittioni delle figure cauate dall’antichi medaglie de gl’imperadori, in quattro lingiaggi Latino, Italiano, Tedesco, e Francese, per utilita commune

Mascardi, Rome, c. 1637

Recent ½ calf with marbled boards, spine with 5 compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two., Although it lacks several plates, this copy of Alto’s edition is generally very good, its plates clean and crisp., Oblong folio, P. (1), blank, title, 143 plates., 143 of 172? plates not including the title page and the dedication page. The map of ancient Rome, Roman Empire and the map Topographia Puteo Lorum are beautifully hand coloured. Plates 49, 50, 81 and 127 are additional title pages. The missing plates are as follows:1, 2, 3, 5, 24, 25, 51, 84, 101, 105, 120, 122, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163. , Volume : 4 Parts in One.

Text is in Latin, Italian, German and French
Giacomo Lauro was an Italian painter, engraver, printer and antiquarian, of the late Renaissance period, active mainly in his native Venice and Treviso. He was a follower of Paolo Veronese. He published his famous “Antiquae urbis splendor� in four parts (1612, 1613, 1615, 1628). Giovanni Alto (a Swiss antiquarian who served in Rome as a papal guard) edited and had this edition published in 1637, translating it from its original Latin into Italian, German, and French. In volume four of “The Mark J. Millard Collection,� Pollak notes that the editor “claims to have expanded Lauro’s no longer available book and to have rearranged it to suit Northern readers…. The ‘Antiquae urbis splendor’ is distinguished from previous publications fashionable in sixteenth century Rome--which turned the city into a series of melancholy vedute ruins--by Lauro’s decision to illustrate reconstructions of the ruins of Rome…. The fourth part provides a gallery of pictures that show contemporary Rome dominated by ruins…. Lauro’s reconstruction of ancient Rome found a broad public…. Its persuasiveness was based in rhetorically conveying the richness of Rome and its architectural heritage� (200)., Giovanni Alto, Millard IV:200; Rossetti, Rome 6081; Boronni 7795.12; Brunet III:881; Olschki Choix XI:17386; BMC XIV:972.552; Kistner 823; Graesse IV:123.

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Giacomo Lauro; Giovanni Alto : Splendore dell Antica e Moderna Roma nel Quale si Rappresentano Tutti i principali Tempii, Teatri, Anfiteatri, Cerchi, Naumachie, Archi Trionfali, Obelischi, Palagii, Terme, Curie, Basiliche, Fatti della Re, Consoli, Dittatori, & Imperadori Romani dignita civili, e militari, ordine de’ trionfi, nomi di tutti i trionfanti, sacrificio militare, colonna Traiana, colonna Antonina, colonna milliaria, colonna rostrata, & colonna bellica, con li piu segnalati giardini de gli antichi, e moderni Romani, & alter cose notabili, con fatti, & imprese di quelli, da’quali sono stati eretti, e dedicati : et in questa ultima impressione abbellito di molti disegni antichi, e moderni, & aggiuntoui le descrittioni delle figure cauate dall’antichi medaglie de gl’imperadori, in quattro lingiaggi Latino, Italiano, Tedesco, e Francese, per utilita commune

Andrea Fei, Rome, 1641

Contemporary full marbled calf, tastefully rebacked in six compartments of raised blind bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt text on two and six, all edges marbled. , Plates 32 & 48 with 2-inch tear extending into plate from lower margin, with no loss to text or image, otherwise a very good copy in attractive period binding., Oblong Folio. , Foliation. 1 ff., to the reader, apostrophe to the city of Rome, title, portrait plate, plates 1-3, unnumerated plate, 4-7, text 3 ff., 8-11, text 2 ff., 12-126, text 3 ff., 127-156, 3 unnumerated plates, 157-166, 1 ff., With 171 plates (misnumbered as 166), including five extra plates by Lauro., Volume : 4 Parts in 1 Volume.

Text is in Latin, Italian, German and French.
Giacomo Lauro was an Italian painter, engraver, printer and antiquarian, of the late Renaissance period, active mainly in his native Venice and Treviso. He was a follower of Paolo Veronese. He published his famous “Antiquae urbis splendor� in four parts (1612, 1613, 1615, 1628). Giovanni Alto (a Swiss antiquarian who served in Rome as a papal guard) edited and had this edition published in 1641, translating it from its original Latin into Italian, German, and French. In volume four of “The Mark J. Millard Collection,� Pollak notes that the
editor “claims to have expanded Lauro’s no longer available book and to have rearranged it to suit Northern readers…. The ‘Antiquae urbis splendor’ is distinguished from previous publications fashionable in sixteenth century Rome--which turned the city into a series of melancholy vedute ruins--by Lauro’s decision to illustrate reconstructions of the ruins of Rome…. The fourth part provides a gallery of pictures that show contemporary Rome dominated by ruins…. Lauro’s reconstruction of ancient Rome found a broad public…. Its persuasiveness was based in rhetorically conveying the richness of Rome and its architectural heritage� (200).
, Millard IV:200; Rossetti, Rome 6081; Boronni 7795.12; Brunet III:881; Olschki Choix XI:17386; BMC XIV:972.552; Kistner 823; Graesse IV:123.

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