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CALVI, Marco Fabio (d.1527). Antiquae urbis Romae cum regionibus simulachrum. Rome: Valerio Dorico, April 1532.
2° (426 x 288mm). Collation: A-F4. 23 leaves (of 24, without final blank). Printed in Arrighi type. Woodcut heading to title, 22 pages of woodcut plans by Tolomeo Egnazio after Calvi. (Some slight marginal soiling and occasional small tears.) Later cloth-backed marbled boards. Provenance: Biblioteca Magliabechiana (duplicate stamp: MD monogram on title); Ricasoli-Ridolfi (armorial bookplate).
Second edition, second issue. The first attempt at an archaeological mapping of Rome, based on extant remains, new excavations and classical texts. The project was proposed to Clement VII by Raphael, after whose death it was executed by Calvi. The type is designed by Lodovico d'Arrighi, who also published the first edition in April 1527. The stock of this edition was almost completely destroyed during the sack of Rome in May 1527, when Calvi lost his life and Arrighi disappeared. The above edition, using Arrighi types and the original woodblocks, was issued by Calvi's nephew Timoteo Fabio, who dedicated the work to Pope Clement VII. Cf. A.Jammes 'Un chef-d'oeuvre meconnu d'Arrighi Vicentino' in Studia bibliographica in honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey (Amsterdam: 1966). Mortimer, Harvard Italian 98; Cicognara 3638 (incorrectly identifed as the first edition).
2° (426 x 288mm). Collation: A-F4. 23 leaves (of 24, without final blank). Printed in Arrighi type. Woodcut heading to title, 22 pages of woodcut plans by Tolomeo Egnazio after Calvi. (Some slight marginal soiling and occasional small tears.) Later cloth-backed marbled boards. Provenance: Biblioteca Magliabechiana (duplicate stamp: MD monogram on title); Ricasoli-Ridolfi (armorial bookplate).
Second edition, second issue. The first attempt at an archaeological mapping of Rome, based on extant remains, new excavations and classical texts. The project was proposed to Clement VII by Raphael, after whose death it was executed by Calvi. The type is designed by Lodovico d'Arrighi, who also published the first edition in April 1527. The stock of this edition was almost completely destroyed during the sack of Rome in May 1527, when Calvi lost his life and Arrighi disappeared. The above edition, using Arrighi types and the original woodblocks, was issued by Calvi's nephew Timoteo Fabio, who dedicated the work to Pope Clement VII. Cf. A.Jammes 'Un chef-d'oeuvre meconnu d'Arrighi Vicentino' in Studia bibliographica in honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey (Amsterdam: 1966). Mortimer, Harvard Italian 98; Cicognara 3638 (incorrectly identifed as the first edition).