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The route of the Acqua Felice conduit that led to the Villa Medici plotted on Giovani Battista Maggi's 1625 map of the city

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Description: The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City
~Water was coin, literally a liquid currency that could be bought, traded, sold, or given away within a highly structured and carefully monitored marketplace. This is why, in spite of the growing number of civic and service fountains in early-seventeenth-century Rome, the...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.181-192
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00166.011

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