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CALVO, Marco Fabio. Antiquae urbis Romae cum regionibus simulachrum. Rome: Valerio Dorico, April 1532.
2°. Printed in Arrighi type, without final blank leaf. Xylographic title combining the arms of Pope Clement VII, the dedicatee, Cardinal Francesco Armellini Medici, and the city of Rome, 22 pages of woodcut plans by Tolomeo Egnazio after Calvo. (Short tears in 2 leaves, light finger-soiling, a few leaves slightly shaved, a few small spots.) 18th-century calf-backed red paper boards (neatly rebacked retaining original gilt backstrip). Provenance: Charles de Valois, son of Charles IX (?, pencilled ascription on front pastedown), passed to: La Guiche, convent of Minims (title inscription).
Second edition, first issue, without Calvo named in the colophon. Calvo provided the first attempt at an archaeological mapping of Rome, based on extant remains, new excavations and classical texts, apparently the result of research for Raphael's project for the restoration of ancient Rome. The work was first published by Arrighi in 1527, but almost all copies were destroyed in the sack of Rome in May of that year, when Calvo died and Arrighi disappeared. The Dorico edition is essentially an Arrighi production, using his types and original woodblocks; it was issued by Calvo's nephew, Timoteo Fabio, and dedicated to Clement VII, patron of Raphael and Calvo alike. According to an inscription in the volume, this copy must have belonged to Charles Valois, comte d'Auvergne, natural son of Charles IX, whose library was given to the Minims at La Guiche. Cf. A. Jammes "Un chef-d'oeuvre unconnu d'Arrighi Vicentino", Studia bibliographica in honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey (Amsterdam, 1966); Cicognara 3638 (mistakenly identified as the first edition); Mortimer, Harvard Italian 98; Sander 1547.
2°. Printed in Arrighi type, without final blank leaf. Xylographic title combining the arms of Pope Clement VII, the dedicatee, Cardinal Francesco Armellini Medici, and the city of Rome, 22 pages of woodcut plans by Tolomeo Egnazio after Calvo. (Short tears in 2 leaves, light finger-soiling, a few leaves slightly shaved, a few small spots.) 18th-century calf-backed red paper boards (neatly rebacked retaining original gilt backstrip). Provenance: Charles de Valois, son of Charles IX (?, pencilled ascription on front pastedown), passed to: La Guiche, convent of Minims (title inscription).
Second edition, first issue, without Calvo named in the colophon. Calvo provided the first attempt at an archaeological mapping of Rome, based on extant remains, new excavations and classical texts, apparently the result of research for Raphael's project for the restoration of ancient Rome. The work was first published by Arrighi in 1527, but almost all copies were destroyed in the sack of Rome in May of that year, when Calvo died and Arrighi disappeared. The Dorico edition is essentially an Arrighi production, using his types and original woodblocks; it was issued by Calvo's nephew, Timoteo Fabio, and dedicated to Clement VII, patron of Raphael and Calvo alike. According to an inscription in the volume, this copy must have belonged to Charles Valois, comte d'Auvergne, natural son of Charles IX, whose library was given to the Minims at La Guiche. Cf. A. Jammes "Un chef-d'oeuvre unconnu d'Arrighi Vicentino", Studia bibliographica in honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey (Amsterdam, 1966); Cicognara 3638 (mistakenly identified as the first edition); Mortimer, Harvard Italian 98; Sander 1547.