La Verona illustrata ridotta in compendio, principalmente per uso de' forestieri, con varie aggiunte. 1-2/2 - Maffei, Scipione 1675-1755; Dall'Acqua, Cristoforo 1734-1787 (Verona Moroni, 1771)
A monumental work dedicated to the history, writers and monuments of Maffei's city: Verona.
"Verona illustrated reduced in compendium, mainly for the use of foreigners, with various additions"
In the present edition for the use of visitors the first volume contains a biography of Maffei, a history of Verona and a description of the ancient Roman amphitheatre, which is illustrated in six plates. The second volume describes and illustrates in seventeen plates some notable sights of the city and its fortifications, and concludes with a brief survey of its literary history.
The work is dedicated by 'P.M.' [identified by the RIBA cataloguer as Pietro Montanari, the editor] to Alvise Mocenigo II, Podestà di Verona (1628-1709)
Francesco Scipione Maffei was a Venetian writer and art critic, an antiquarian with a humanist education, and author of many articles and plays.
Some plates are signed as made by Dall'Acqua.
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); History; Biography; Architecture; Fine art; Tragedy; Verona (Italy); Bianchini, F; Dante; orgels in Verona; Ottoboni; dichteres; theater; Vinci, L. da; Zeno, A; Rubens; Maffei, S; Beccaria, A; beschilderde orgelluiken; Catullus; Dorigny; Guarino; intarsia; Plinius; San Michele; Verona_Arena; Verona_Castillo; Verona_Dom; Verona_Gran guardia; Verona_Museo lapidario; Verona_Palazzo bevilacqua; Verona_Palazzo giusti; Verona_Palazzo maffei; Verona_Porta borsari; Verona_Porta leone; Verona_S. Anastasia; Verona_S. Bernardino; Verona_S. Eufemia; Verona_S. Fermo; Verona_S. Giorgio; Verona_S. Giovanni in Fonte; Verona_S. Giovanni in Valle; Verona_S. Maria in organo; Verona_S. Nazaro e Celsi; Verona_S. Procolo; Verona_S. Stefano; Verona_S. Tommaso; Verona_S. Zeno; Verona_Storia letteraria; Verona_Teatro; Verona_Teatro romano; Vitruvius