Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn : Kircher's Latium and its legacy
| 1. Verfasser: |
Evans, Harry B.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2012.
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| Umfang/Format: |
236 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Roma |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 2 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : tackling topography
- Preliminaries : Latium, the church, the pope, and Kircher's preface
- It all started with Noah
- Latium's lake country, the Alban Hills
- Villas and a tomb : Tusculum and the Ager Tusculanus
- Praeneste : Barberini town and its mosaic
- Villa country : Tivoli and its surrounding territory
- The Sabines and Volscians
- Draining the Pomptine marshes : a not-so-modest proposal
- Habent sua fata libelli : Fabretti's reading of Kircher
- The legacy of Kircher's Latium.
