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Author: Amati, Carlo
Title: Succinte memorie intorno le sedici antiche colonne presso S.Lorenzo ... nella circostanza della ricostruzione e riordinamento del corso di Porta Ticinese. Coll’ ordine progressivo delle scoperte che possono servire di seguito all’illustrazione dal medesimo pubblicata nell’anno MDCCCXXI.
Publication: Milano, Luigi di Giacomo Pirola 1831.
Price: £780
Reference: 11474
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Folio. 32 + (2)pp, 1 large folding engraved plate. Contemporary marbled paper boards, calf spine. A good, untrimmed copy.
A scarce book providing a detailed account by the Milanese architect Carlo Amati (1776-1852) of archaeological discoveries made in 1830 during roadmaking operations close to the sixteen surviving columns from a Roman temple or Roman baths complex, which have stood since early Christian times in the forecourt of the basilica of S.Lorenzo in Milan (Amati had previously discussed these columns in his Antichita di Milano, 1821). BAL Cat 84.