Eliogabalo,
Flaminius,
Flora,
Nero,
Sallust,
Hadrian, still unpublished.
The Circus of Caracalla being the best preserved, we will give the geometric and perspective details, the various restorations, the bleachers, the enclosure around which the chariot race took place, the boxes intended for the magistrates and the emperors. (The latter often took pleasure in racing themselves, driving a quarter riga, four-horse chariot); the enclosure from which the tanks left. Besides the ornaments, etc., the bas-reliefs will also be mentioned, in order to make known more positively the uses and the manners adopted for the race. Curious and interesting work.
A volume containing 120 plates
A volume of explanations.
PORTICOS
Septi Zionio di Settimio Severo and Septi Giulii
Plans, sections and large details of the porticoes
of Octavia;
of Gneus Octavius, who is also attributed to Philip;
of Caius and Lucius, drawn by us during the last discoveries, and still unpublished;
of Domitian, still unpublished.
Large details of the Septi, decorated with porticoes, marble columns, by Lepidus and Agrippa, in honor of Cćsar, which gave them the name of Septi Giulii.
It is in these Septi that the Tribes and the Centuries met to give their vote.
A volume of 80 plates
A volume of explanations, etc.
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AROUND ROME, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Tusculum, ancient and modern.
The work will make known the situation, the excavations which have been made, the plan, the elevation, the views of the pleasure houses, so famous and the buildings erected with as much luxury as research by the various pontiffs. It will not be difficult to point out that the best artists in the sixteenth century sought to surpass themselves, as much in composition as in architecture, decoration, etc.
Un volume contenant 60 planches
Un volume d’explications, etc.
Antiquities of Preneste.
21 vol. divided into 8 Sections. I Section.
Plan, section and detail of the famous Temple of Fortune Prenestine. Its famous mosaics, sculptures, bas-reliefs, etc.
General situation of all the other antiquities that have been discovered there.
A volume containing 6o plates
A volume of dissertations, etc.
Gabium Antiquities on the Prenestine Way.
Section II.
General plan of the newly discovered city.
Particular plans, sections, details of buildings of all kinds recently discovered, statues, bas-reliefs, inscriptions, busts, etc.
A volume containing 80 plates
A volume of dissertations.
Antiquities of Tivoli (formerly Tiburtine town).
Section III.
Demonstration of the gate of the ancient city.
Another demonstration of a new gantry.
Plans, divisions and details of the villa of Maecenas, Quintilius Varius, and many others still unpublished. These amazing buildings with their vast extent, were built on enormous masses (susstruzzioni) of square stones, covered with a tint, the color of carmine, like Cicero in mentioned. It is in one of these villas that were found the nine Muses and the busts of the philosophers which enrich the Museum Napoleon today.
Demonstration of the villas of Horace and Pliny.
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