Roma

A small and very rare map of Rome, for the first time published in the very rare "Giardino del Mondo dove si vede sculpite le citta principale ditalia con le eccelse fabriche antiche e chiese palazzi guglie colonne giardini e fonatene et archi trionfali di Roma" printed in Rome [s.d. but about 1625-30].

It is a volume of small format and without index, dedicated to Federico Cesi, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, who died in 1630. In the dedication, which appears after the illustrated title, the author describes the reasons that pushed to prepare the work (see Bellucci-Valerio, Piante e vedute di Napoli dal 1600 al 1699, p. 76).

The small-sized works are a derivation of those by Francesco Valegio contained in "Descrizione La Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose citta di tutto il mondo" from the end of the 16th century.

Marcucci's platess flowed into the most famous De Rossi typography, and reprinted in the "Raccolta delle principali città d’Italia intagliate con tutte le contrade, e palazzi di esse" published in Rome in 1643 by Giovambattista de Rossi. A subsequent reprint of the same is known by Carlo Losi in 1773.

The very rare map is described for the first time by Scaccia Scarafoni, who erroneously gives the wrong date of 1547. Marigliani, erroneously dating it to about 1595, provides the first accurate description: "it is a copy of the map of Valegio built in the last decade of the 16th century with very slight differences only in the depiction of St. Peter, of which you can see the side domes, Santa Maria Maggiore and the Colosseum more correctly depicted with a part of the external hemicycle missing "(see Marigliani p . 164).

Copper engraving, in perfect condition. Extremely rare.

Bibliografia

Scaccia Scarafoni (1939): n. 132; Frutaz (1960) n. 139 (nota); Marigliani (2007): p. 164, n. 65.