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Paoli, Paolo Antonio (1720-1790) Paesti Quod Posidoniam etiam Dixere Rudera.
Rome: [In typographio Paleariniano], 1784.
Oversized folio, engraved title and portrait dedication leaf facing title by Giovanni Volpato after Tiepolo; second engraved title page, Rovine della Citta di Pesto detta Ancora Posidona, illustrated with sixty-five numbered plates (counting the two title pages as I and II, the dedication as III, and so on), some two to a page, most full page and five double page or folding, with large engraved vignettes (all but the final two repeats of plates also printed two to a page on separate sheets) and initials; plate XX bound upside down; text in Latin and Italian in parallel columns; bound in later half morocco, binding detached from text block, sewing perished, 20 x 15 in.
Paoli was president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome in the late 18th century. He was also a historian of the ancient civilizations of Campania, in southern Italy, and a pioneering archaeologist and scholar.
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian sea. Its ruins, dating from about 550 to 450 BCE include three of the best-preserved ancient Greek temples in the world, all carefully described and illustrated in the current work. In addition to landscape-style views of the first and second Temples of Hera, and the Temple of Athena from all angles, Paoli also includes scale architectural renderings, measured reproductions of architectural details, floorplans, decorative elements, and more.
