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100 1 # $a Fontana, Carlo
245 1 2 $a L'Anfiteatro Flavio Descritto E Delineato Dal Cavaliere Carlo Fontana.
260 # # $a Nell' Haia, $b Appresso Isaco Vaillant, $c M. DCC. XXV. $c [1725]
300 # # $a [4], 171, [5] p., 24 pl. (1 dble.); $c 509 mm. (Folio).
505 0 # $a [T.-p.] - Proemio Generale; Indice Dei Libri; [correction] - [Text, with plates] - Indice Dei Libri E Capitoli Di Questa Opera.
508 # # $a All plates but one (no. 17) are signed as drawn by C. Fontana; nine are also signed as engraved by Dom. Franceschini. The title-page vignette is signed as designed by Lud. Cheron.
510 0 # $a RIBA, Early printed books, 2 (1995), no. 1094, p.613-4.

H. Hager, 'Carlo Fontana's project for a church in honour of the Ecclesia triumphans in the Colosseum, Rome', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XXXVI (1973), p.319-337.
520 2 # $a Although published posthumously in 1725, this was listed among Fontana's theoretic works in 1696.

The text is presented in the following sections: 'Intrduzione: Dei Teatri ed Anfiteatri; 1. Del Stato presente dell'Anfiteatro Flavio; 2. Del Stato antico ...; 3. Erudizioni Profane ... cioè, della sua Erezione, e dell'Uso delle sue diverse Parti ...; 4. Erudizione Sacre ...; 5. Del restituir l'Onore all'Anfiteatro Flavio; cioè, Descrizzione dei Edificii Sacri da fare nella sua residual Parte.' It includes Fontana's suggestion that the Colosseum should be conserved and should have a church erected in the arena, commemorating the Christian martyrs.

Fontana's original manuscript and drawings survive at the Sir John Soane Museum, London.
561 # # $a Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
563 # # $a 19th-century half calf, black cloth-covered boards; rebacked and recornered in 20th century, retaining earlier black morocco spine-label lettered 'Anfiteatro Flavio'.
653 # # $a Architecture, Roman - Amphitheatres (built works) - Public buildings - Italy - Rome - History - 1st century
653 # # $a Architecture, Italian - Italy - Rome - History - 17th century
655 # 4 $a Designs - Italy - Rome - 17th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Netherlands - 18th century
700 1 # $a Franceschini, Domenico Mariano $e engraver
700 1 # $a Chéron, Louis $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Vaillant $e publisher
852 8 # $d 1802: 18-0-17; 1821: 13-0-25.