Abstract
This collection assembles maps with reconstructions of routes and paths through Rome described in Renaissance guidebooks and antiquarian literature. The maps are part of the publication “Camminando vedrete. Paths through ancient Rome in travel literature from 7th to 16th century“.
Description
The Topoi research project 'Paths through Rome' focuses on the structural organization of Rome’s urban space in the travel literature from the 7th to the 16th century. In the 15th and 16th century we can observe a shift in representation of the city’s imago: the perspective of the visitor immersed in the urban space, moving from one place to another, is more and more adopted. Not only in 'vedute' by choosing a locatable point of view, but also in texts by describing practicable routes. The five maps contained in this collection illustrate the routes and paths through Rome described in the Excerpta after G. P. Leto (15th cent.), in the Nota d’anticaglie (around 1500), in the Itinerarium Urbis Romae by Mariano da Firenze (1517/18), in the Guida Romana by Schakerlay Inglese (1557) and in the Topographia Romanae Urbis by J.-J. Boissard (1597). They are visualized on the map of Rome by Etienne Dupérac (Nova Urbis Romae Descriptio, 1577 / Reprint Ehrle 1908) and show the different approaches of the Renaissance authors in their aim to create new patterns of Rome as a space of motion.
Further information
Roemer, Lisa Marie. Camminando vedrete. Wege durch das antike Rom in der Reiseliteratur des 7. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Vol. 71, Berlin 2019.
