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TitleRoma

Creator nameBufalini, Leonardo di Giovanni Pietro

Creator name (description)Copied by Antonio Trevisi

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleMapmaker

Creation date1551

Creation date (description)Copied 1930

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

MaterialsUnknown

LocationBiblioteca Hertziana, Rome

http://dlib.biblhertz.it/Dg125-4790.html

Accession numberDg125-4790

SubjectsPrints, RenaissanceRome (Italy)--MapsArt, Italian--Copying

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Chapter 4. Paths and Edges: The Street Ecology of City Centres and Neighbourhoods

Fabrizio Nevola

Street Life in Renaissance Italy

Writing in Book II, ‘Di prospettiva’ (‘On perspective’), of his treatise on architecture (first published 1545), the Bolognese painter and architect Sebastiano Serlio is describing here the first of three main types of stage-set design for classical theatre: comic, tragic and satyric (or...

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Fabrizio Nevola

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.135-185

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00290.4

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, Renaissance--ItalyUrban ecology (Sociology)City planning--Italy--HistoryPublic spaces--ItalyCity and town life--ItalySerlio, Sebastiano 1475-1554Architecture, Renaissance--Classical influencesShopping--ItalyPictorial maps, Renaissance

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~The year 1557 was a wretched one in Rome. First, it rained continuously during February and March, and the Tiber River rose above its normal level several times. Residents living along the riverbank fled to higher ground and in some cases were forced to leave the city. Then...

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Katherine Wentworth Rinne

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-37

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00166.004

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