Dalla Monarchia alla Repubblica. Taccuino politico del '45.

Édition critique par J-Y. Boriaud & F. Furlan. Introduzione di M. Carpo & F. Furlan. Ouvrage coordonné par F. Furlan. Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2005, cm.17x24, pp.154 con 14 figg. nt. e 10 tavv. f.t., brossura Coll. Biblioteca dell'«Archivum Romanicum» - Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, 331. La Descriptio raccoglie in 16 tavole i dati alfanumerici relativi al rilievo topografico dell’urbe eseguito dall’Alberti intorno al 1450. La riduzione di Roma a una serie di punti che la caratterizza sottende l’impossibilità di affidare ai copisti la ripr The first truly critical edition of the «Descriptio», which gathers in sixteen tables the alpha-numerical data relating to Alberti’s topographical survey of Rome of the late 1440s. Reducing Rome’s map to a series of dots suggests the impossibility of entr

English text. London, Little, Brown and Company 1996, cm.16x23,5, pp.X-622, alcune figg.bn.nt. legatura ed.sopracop.fig.bn.

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