Gregorio Roisecco

This volume by the Roman publisher and bookseller Gregorio Roisecco is structured around the recurring format of ten giornate (days). The guidebook leads the reader in an art-historical tour of the Urbe in which the description of ancient Rome merges with the descriptions of modern Rome. In this text, different aspects of the city meld according to the order in which the sites (whether pagan, sacred or profane) present themselves to the visitor along the route. The text precedes, by twenty years, the most famous work by Roisecco from 1745, a guidebook in three volumes considered one of the most beautiful and sophisticated Roman guidebooks of the 17th century.

Complete digitized book: IIIF Digital View (National Gallery of Art Library, Special Collections)