Splendore dell'antica e moderna Roma
Subtitle: nel qvale si rappresentano tutti i principali tempii, teatri, anfiteatri, cerchi, naumachie, archi trionfali, obelischi, palagii, terme, curie, basiliche, fatti delli ré, consoli, dittatori, & imperadori romani : dignità ciuili, e militari, ordine de' trionfi, nomi di tutti i trionfanti, sacrificio militare; colonna Traiana, colonna Antonina, colonna milliaria, colonna rostrata, & colonna bellica; con li più segnalati giardini de gli antichi, e moderni Romani & altre cose notabili, con fatti, & imprese di quelli, da'quali sono stati eretti, e dedicati. : et in questa vltima impressione abbellito di molti disegni antichi, e moderni; & aggiuntoui le descrittioni delle figure cauate dall'antichi medaglie de gl'imperadori, in quatto linguagi latino, italiano, tedesco, e francese, per vtilità commune
By: dato alle stampe da Giovanni Alto, Svizzero da Lvcerna ...
Contributors: Alto, Giovanni Ridolfo
Publisher: Stamparia d'Andrea Fei
Published: 1641
Place of publication: In Roma
Language: mul
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Description and travel; Architecture; Antiquities; History
Work titles: Antiquae urbis splendor
Notes: The engraved original title pages are included in the numbering of plates (166).

Part 1 shares t.p. of the whole: Antiquae urbis splendor -- pt. 2 has title: Antiquitatum urbis liber secundus, 1613 (plate 49) -- pt. 3: Antiquae urbis splendoris complementum, 1615 (plate 85) -- pt. 4: Antiquae urbis vestigia quae nunc extant, 1628 (plate 127).

Latin t.p. continues: Antiqvae vrbis splendor : hoc est præcipva eisvsdem templa, amphitheatra ... / opera & industria Iacobi Lauri Romani in æs incisa atque in lucem edita ; addita est breuis quædam et succincta imaginum explicatio ... additione utcunq₅ hoc insequenti anno 1630 reperiũtur ...

Descriptive text in Latin engraved at bottom of each plate; ill. of pts. 1-3 have also descriptive letterpress renderings in Italian, German and French printed on versos.

Two unnumbered plates showing sculptures within frames, one the Farnese Bull and the second the Laocoon, are included.

Borroni Salvadori, F. Il Cicognara, II.4.3, 7995¹²

Sloan candidate lp Tier 3

Library's copy 1 has engraved t.p. of 1612/1630 bound in after printed t.p. and translations of "Romae veteris ac recentis brevis descriptio" bound in following printed preliminaries rather than after the Latin text (which is on verso of plate 7).

Library's copies 2 and 3 pages ordered differently: plate 1, engraved t.p. of 1612/1630 precedes printed t.p. as do port. of Pope Urban VIII, 1623, Lauro's engraved dedication, port. of Sigismund III of Poland, engraving of the senate of Poland, 1622, and Giovanni Alto's introduction, which mentions Lauro.  Copy 2 lacks the page: "Gio. Ridolfo Alto Svizzero a chi leggara" found in the preliminaries of copies 1 and 3.  "De ovatione" follows plate 12 and its text pages.  The two added leaves of plates of sculptures are bound in apparently at random in the 3 copies.

Library's copy 3 has two additional plates in decorative frames replicate plate 166 and introduce the church of Madonna di Loreto (between 156 and 157).

Library's copy 2 from Theodore Besterman's library.  Cf. Besterman, T. Art books, p. 54.