Silloge variar. Tomo II (studies on Roman history), ca. 1700.

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Silloge variar. Tomo II (studies on Roman history), ca. 1700.

Silloge variar. Tomo II (studies on Roman history), ca. 1700.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145992403

A collection of miscellaneous studies on Roman history and antiquities in various hands. Subjects include biographical notes on physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli; commentary in Latin and Greek on the first book of the Aeneid; notes on Count Gian Rinaldo Carli-Rubbi of Capodistria; Latin funeral epitaphs; an index from a treatise on the history of ink; a list of Italian and French authors between 1548 and 1694 and their works on historiography, including Sebastiano Maccio and M. de Cordemoy; Roman vowel pronunciation and corresponding orthography; an outline of the religious, military, public, and private sectors of Roman life; a description of Roman weaponry in action; and sketches of the Pyramid of Cestius and Roman household furnishings.

1 v. (ca. 244 p.); ill.

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