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Book Review
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome. By Pamela O. Long
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 261-263
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Connors, Joseph (Connors, Joseph)
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Rome
subjects:
Architecture / Architects / Popes / Engineering / Rivers / Maps / Fontana, Domenico
subjects:
Aqueducts / Bridges / Obelisks
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Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome By Pamela O. Long. 368 pp. incl. 73 b. & w. ills. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2018),  34. ISBN 978–0–226–54379–6. | :
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5. Lowering of the Vatican obelisk, by Natale Bonifacio, from Domenico Fontana’s Della trasportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano, Rome 1590, pl.18. Engraving, 39.2 by 24.5 cm. (Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA).