Le Vestigia, E Rarit? Di Roma Antica

“Le Vestigia, E Raritá Di Roma Antica” by Francesco De Ficoroni is an extensive Italian antiquarian survey of ancient Rome’s public buildings, monuments, and remnants along the seven hills and the Tiber. The work surveys ruined temples, arches, forums, aqueducts, the Cloaca Maxima, baths, and other vestiges that attest to Rome’s former grandeur. The text blends historical notes, epigraphic references, and topographical observations, tracing how later builders repurposed or demolished ancient structures and how salvaged materials shaped medieval and early modern Rome. It details the Capitoline Hill, the Forum Boarium, the Circus, the Cloaca Maxima, the Temple of Vesta, the Temple of Diana Efefina, the Arch of Costantino, Trajan’s Column, the Ara Pacis, and many other public edifices, as well as the Via Appia, the Aventine, the Esquilino, the Quirinal, and the Vatican area. The book offers a historical panorama with occasional plates and testimonies from ancient authors and coins illustrating the monuments. A valuable reference for scholars of Roman topography, epigraphy, and architectural history, capturing the 18th?century sensibility toward antiquities.