Arts and Art History

Selena Anders

Eight Days in Rome with Giuseppe Vasi

With the collaboration of Giovanna Lenzi-Sandusky and Jennifer Parker

Bibliotheca Archaeologica, 76
2023, 620 pp.
Paperback, 21,5 x 28 cm
ISBN: 9788891326836
ISSN: 2240-8347
Disponibile dal 30 Settembre
  • Abstract
  • Table of Contents
  • Abstract

    This book entails the first complete English translation of Giuseppe Vasi’s Itinerario Istruttivo Diviso in Otto Giornate (1777). Unlike other guides to Rome written in the eighteenth century, Vasi’s was woven into a more extensive oeuvre dedicated to the documentation and visualization of the Eternal City. In the introduction, this book tells the dynamic story of Vasi’s comprehensive representation of Rome from part to whole that he pursued his entire professional career. Titled Eight Days in Rome with Giuseppe Vasi, the book follows the author, mapping his itinerary onto Giovanni Battista Nolli’s Nuova Pianta di Roma (1748). In addition, it provides contemporary photographs of the buildings and urban spaces he illustrates and describes in the text to provide modern readers with a better understanding of the evolution of the city’s urban environment. Finally, this project analyzes how historical travel literature such as Vasi’s can expand our present knowledge of a city’s evolution, and those who contributed to its development, including the female saints, matrons, artists, and architects often left out of the guidebook tradition and history in general.

  • Table of Contents

    Preface

    Acknowledgements

    Abbreviations

    Introduction

    Notes on the Translation

    Preface

    I. DAY ONE

    II. DAY TWO

    III. DAY THREE

    IV. DAY FOUR

    V. DAY FIVE

    VI. DAY SIX

    VII. DAY SEVEN

    VIII. DAY EIGHT

    IX. DETOUR

    NOTES

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    INDEX