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Soldier and administrator; in 117 succeeded his distant relative Trajan as emperor of Rome. Founder of Adrianople, Antinoopolis and other cities; commissioner of the Pantheon in Rome, the Villa at Tivoli and many other buildings and works of art; patron of learning and the arts. Commissioned Hadrian’s Wall in north Britain 122-8.
Born: 76 in Rome
Died: 138
Agostino Penna
Viaggio Pittorico Della Villa Adriana Composto Di Vedute Disegnate Dal Vero Ed Incise Da Agostino Penna Con una breve descrizione di ciascun monumento. Tomo I. (-IV.) - Roma
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Ichnographia Villae Tiburtinae Hadriani Caesaris Olim A Pyrrho Ligorio Celeberrimo Architecto & Antiquario delineata & descripta, Postea A Francisco Continio Architecto summa cura recognita, & publici juris facta, Nunc denuo affabre aeri incisa, in elegantiorem & commodiorem formam redacta, addita expositione Latina. - Romae
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