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Trattato di Camillo Agrippa milanese di trasportar la gvglia in sv la piazza di San Pietro ..

by: Agrippa, Camillo, -1595?

Publication date: 1583

Topics: Agrippa, Camillo, d. 1595?, Obelisco vaticano (Vatican City), Obelisks, Hoisting machinery, Conveying machinery, Mechanical engineering, Agrippa, Camillo, -1595? Trattato di trasportar la gvglia in sv la piazza di San Pietro, Obelisco vaticano (Vatican City) -- Early works to 1800, Obelisks -- Vatican City -- Early works to 1800, Hoisting machinery -- Early works to 1800, Conveying machinery -- Early works to 1800, Mechanical engineering -- Early works to 1800, Buildings, Vatican City -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Early works to 1800, Vatican City

Publisher: In Roma : Per Francesco Zanetti

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

Item Size: 68.9M

Running title: Discorso sopra la guglia

Papal arms on t.p.; woodcut initials

"Dialogo di Fabritio et Agapito Fossani sopra il discorso della guglia fatto da Camillo Agrippa", p. 29-47

Signatures: A-F

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.

Library's copy 1 with: Ordo dedicationis obelisci quem S.D.N. Sixtvs V. pont. max. in Foro Vaticano ad limina apsotolorum erexit / P. Galesinivs, Romae : B. Grassi, 1586 -- Discorso di M. Filippo Pigafetta d'intorno all'historia della agvglia et alla ragione del muouerla, In Roma : B. Grassi, 1586 -- Familiaris qvaedam epistola e Roma in Hispaniam missa ... Romae : A. Gardanus & F. Coattinus, 1586

Leaf of plates (dated 1582, 42 x 56 cm.) showing Agrippa's plan for moving the obelisk is bound in to Library's copy 1 at the end of the vol. after its several additional titles. Library's copy 2 lacks this plate

Library's copy 2 with: Discorso de M. Filippo Pigafetta d'intorno all'historia della agvglia at alla ragione del muouerla, In Roma : B. Grassi, 1586 (copy 2)

47, [1] pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : 22 cm

Signatures: A-F⁴