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VALEGIO, Francesco. Teatro delle piu illustri et famose citta del mondo. [Venice, c.1590-1600]
2° (273 x 200). Double-page engraved general title with title in brown set within an allegorical surround, engraved plate with half-title Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose citta di tutto il mondo, 305 engraved views and plans on 153 leaves, many signed by Valegio, some with accompanying text or keys, one printed upside down. (Six plates laid down on thicker paper, some light marginal spotting, very occasional light worming, small hole to one leaf.) Later sheep (rebacked, retaining majority of original spine). Provenance: manuscript comments and observations in several 17th-century hands and one 18th century hand, with notes recording travels made in 1599, 1600 and 1601, mostly relating to cities in Italy. The most extensive annotations relate to Padua, with historical notes about Livy and St Anthony of Padua, with epitaphs copied from monuments. The inscription 'Collegii Scotorim de Urbe' on the first leaf may suggest that the present work belonged to a member of the Pontifical Scots College in Rome, founded in 1600 by Pope Clement VIII.
An interesting issue of Valegio's topographical work with a comprehensive collection of plates. The views and plans of the principal cities and towns in Europe, Africa and Asia derive from those in the first 'city atlas', namely Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum published in Cologne from 1572. This widely popular work included over 500 panoramas, views and plans of cities, placed in picturesque landscapes, often with costumed figures in the foreground, and these elements have also found their way into Valegio's miniature plates.
2° (273 x 200). Double-page engraved general title with title in brown set within an allegorical surround, engraved plate with half-title Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose citta di tutto il mondo, 305 engraved views and plans on 153 leaves, many signed by Valegio, some with accompanying text or keys, one printed upside down. (Six plates laid down on thicker paper, some light marginal spotting, very occasional light worming, small hole to one leaf.) Later sheep (rebacked, retaining majority of original spine). Provenance: manuscript comments and observations in several 17th-century hands and one 18th century hand, with notes recording travels made in 1599, 1600 and 1601, mostly relating to cities in Italy. The most extensive annotations relate to Padua, with historical notes about Livy and St Anthony of Padua, with epitaphs copied from monuments. The inscription 'Collegii Scotorim de Urbe' on the first leaf may suggest that the present work belonged to a member of the Pontifical Scots College in Rome, founded in 1600 by Pope Clement VIII.
An interesting issue of Valegio's topographical work with a comprehensive collection of plates. The views and plans of the principal cities and towns in Europe, Africa and Asia derive from those in the first 'city atlas', namely Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum published in Cologne from 1572. This widely popular work included over 500 panoramas, views and plans of cities, placed in picturesque landscapes, often with costumed figures in the foreground, and these elements have also found their way into Valegio's miniature plates.
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