Jessica Maier: 1 book
Rome Measured and Imagined
Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a “crumbling city” populated by “broken ruins” into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by...
