Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome

Treatises, Primary and Secondary Texts


A. Chiesa, Pianta del Corso del Tevere e sue adjacenze…1744…Delinieata da Andrea Chiesa e Bernardo Gambarini, (Rome, 1744).
Courtesy The Vincent Buonanno Collection (select images, June 2006)

Raffaele Fabretti, De aquis et aquaeductibus veteris Romae (Rome, 1680).
Courtesy The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT (partially complete, July 2005)

Carlo Fontana, Utilissimo trattato dell' acque correnti: diviso in tre libri, (Rome: 1696).
Courtesy The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT (under construction, July 2005)

Sextus Julius Frontinus, The Two Books on the Water Supply of the City of Rome, reprinted in
Latin with an English translation and explanatory chapters by Clemens Herschel, 2nd edition (New
York: Longmans, Green, 1913).

     English translation (text now available)
     Latin Reprint (under construction)
     Commentary (under construction)

Cornelius Meier, L’Arte di Restituire a Roma la tralasciata navigatione del Tevere…, (Rome: 1685).
Courtesy The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT (under construction, August 2005)

Pietro Narducci, Sulla fognatura della città di Roma; descrizione tecnica (Rome,1889). 124p. and atlas, 14 plates.
Courtesy The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT

     Italian text (not yet available)
     Plates (available, November 2001)

Agostino Ramelli, Le diverse et artificiose machine (Paris: 1588).

 

 




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