Le Memorie Ritrovate Nel Territorio Della prima, e seconda Citta Di Labico E I Loro Giusti Siti, Descritti Brevemente Da Francesco De Ficoroni Socio della Reale Accademia di Parigi. Dedicate A Monsignor Illustrissimo, e Reverendissimo Giovanni Bottari Cappellano Segreto di Nostro Signore, e Custode della Biblioteca Vaticana.
In Roma: MDCCXLV., Nella Stamperia Di Girolamo Mainardi. Con Licenza de' Superiori.
Physical Description
[12], 115, [1] p., [14] pl. (3 fold.): illus.; 267 mm. (Quarto).
Contents
[Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Al Lettore - Indice De' Nominati nell'Opera - Imprimatur - Errata - [Text, with pl.]
Responsibility Note
No plate or illustration is signed.
The work is dedicated by the author to Giovanni Bottari. The plate facing p. 97 is captioned with a dedication from Franco. Ficoroni to Marc'Antonio Borghese Prencipe di Rossano.
Summary Note
The first plate is a folding map of Labico and the environs of Rome; the second shows a section of an underground chamber; the third is a folding view of a tree-lined path; the rest show a bronze cist, a bronze mirror-back, coins, seals, key-rings, weights and lamps.
Reproductions
Republished as microfiche in 1989 (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey).
Provenance
Bought in 1787 (RAA Council Minutes II, 47).
Binding Note
18th-century mottled calf; rebacked by Paling in 1996 retaining spine-piece; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Ficoroni Labico'.
Subject
Antiquities, Roman - Antiquities, Etruscan - Italy - Lazio - Labico - History
Art history - Topographic surveys - Maps - Sections - Views - Italy - 18th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century