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001 $ 03/2641
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220127103441.6
041 1 # $a lat $a ita
044 # # $a it
245 0 0 $a Ichnographia Villae Tiburtinae Hadriani Caesaris Olim A Pyrrho Ligorio Celeberrimo Architecto & Antiquario delineata & descripta, Postea A Francisco Continio Architecto summa cura recognita, & publici juris facta, $b Nunc denuo affabre aeri incisa, in elegantiorem & commodiorem formam redacta, addita expositione Latina.
246 3 1 $a Pianta Della Villa Tiburtina Di Adriano Cesare Gia' Da Pirro Ligorio
260 # # $a Romae $c MDCCLI. $c [1751] $b Ex Typographia Apollinea prope Campum Florae in Aedibus della Farnesina. Superiorum Facultate.
300 # # $a [iv], x, 30 p., [2] pl. (fold.); $c 342 mm. (Folio.)
500 # # $a The number of unnumbered preliminary pages is described by various cataloguers as 0, 2 or 4.
505 0 # $a [T.p. (Latin), t.p. (Italian)] - Imprimatur - Typographi Ad Lectorem / Gli Stampatori A Chi Legge - [2 fold. plates] - Ichnographiae Villae Hadrianae Declaratio Generalis / Espozsizione Generale Della Pianta Della Villa Adriana - [Colophon].
508 # # $a The map is captioned as 'Pyrrho Ligorio et Francisco Continio delineata' and is signed by Francesco Mazzoni as engraver. The title-page vignette is signed as drawn and engraved by Dominicus Cigni.

The printers' name is given in the colophon: 'Romae MDCCLI Apud Haeredes Barbiellini'.
510 # # $a A. Ranaldi, Pirro Ligorio e l'interpretazione delle ville antiche (2001); E. Salza Prina Ricotti, 'Villa Adriana in Pirro Ligorio e Francesco Contini' in Atti & Memorie Accad. N. Lincei, Atti Cl. Sci. Morali XVII (1973-4) p.1-47; W.L. Macdonald & J.A. Pinto, Hadrian's Villa and its legacy (1995).
520 2 # $a The work consists of two folding plates which together form a map of the Villa, followed by detailed notes in Latin and Italian, keyed to lettered and numbered points in the maps.

This republication of Contini's plan 'in more covenient form' was a response to growing interest in Hadrian's Villa. Though the site was mentioned in Palladio's Antichità (1554) and P. De l'Orme's Premier tome de l'architecture (1567), architects and artists had studied it by visiting in person or by consulting manuscript plans and sketches. Ligorio surveyed the Villa ca. 1550-1568, and Contini ca. 1634-7; but no plan by Ligorio was published (some of his plans of single buildings survive at Turin and Windsor Castle), and it was not until 1668 that Contini's Adriani Caesaris immanem in Tiburtino villam was published at Rome (11 plates with descriptions). In 1723 Ligorio's Descrizzione was at length published at Leiden; in 1751 came the present reissue of Contini; which was followed by Piranesi's vedute and his Pianta, published by his son in 1781.

The British joined in the excavation of the site, and some spectacular finds were made (Gavin Hamilton's led to the dispersal to Britain of the Warwick Vase and other sculptures). The architectural influence of the Villa, with its full repertoire of Roman complex and vaulted forms ranging well beyond Vitruvian 'norms', was felt across Europe - from Adam's work in Britain to Cameron's in Russia.
561 # # $a [Copy 1] Acquired between 1769 and 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
563 # # $a [Copy 1] 20th-century half calf; buckram-covered boards; red morocco spine-label, lettered 'Ligorio Della Di Adriano' [sic].

[Copy 2] Front board missing; rear board with marbled paper and leather spine, spine label missing. Housed in blue four-fold enclosure; shelf location and number in pencil on front flap.
600 0 4 $a Hadrian
610 2 4 $a Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli)
653 # # $a Architecture, Roman - Villas, Roman - Palaces, Roman - Garden structures - Gardens - Italy - Lazio - Tivoli - History - 2nd century
655 # 4 $a Maps - Art history - Italy - 17th century - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century
700 1 # $a Contini, Francesco $e source artist
700 1 # $a Ligorio, Pirro $e source artist
700 1 # $a Mazzoni, Francesco $e engraver
700 1 # $a Cigni, Domenico $e draughtsman $e engraver
710 2 # $a Eredi Barbiellini (Rome) $e printer
710 2 # $a Stamperia di Apollo (Rome) $e printer
852 8 # $d 1802: B-4-11; 1821: L-3-07.