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The Digital Piranesi

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Title and Description: Veduta della fonte e delle Spelonche d’Egeria fuor della porta Capena or di San Sebastiano. Hic ubi nocturnæ Numa constituebat amicæ Nemus et delubra. Così Giovenal nella Satire 3. ove pur dice: In vallem Egeriæ descendimus et speluncas Dissimiles veris; quanto praestantius esset Numen aquæ viridi si margine clauderet umbras Herba, nec ingenuum violarent marmora tophum *Tempio di Bacco, or di Sant' Urbano. Signature: Cavalier Piranesi F(ecit) Title and Description: View of the fountain and the Grotto of Egeria outside the Porta Capena, now San Sebastiano. “At the place where Numa used to meet his sweetheart at nightime.” So Juvenal writes in Book 3 of the Satires, where he also says: “We wander down the hill to Egeria’s valley and a grotto unlike the real thing. How much more palpably present the fountain’s spirit would be, if a grassy border surrounded the water, and no marble profaned the native tufa!” *Temple of Bacchus, now Sant’Urbano. Signature: Made by Cavalier Piranesi.
Title: Veduta della Facciata di dietro della Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore Key: 1. Cappella di Sisto V. 2 Cappella di Paolo V. 3. Obelisco ritrovato fra le rovine del Mausoleo d’Augusto, e fatto quivi trasportare ed erigere da Sisto V. 4. Villa Montalto Signature: Giov(anni). Battista Piranesi Architetto dis(egnavit). ed inc(idit). Signature 2: Presso l’Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinità de’ Monti Title: View of the rear facade of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore Key: Chapel of Sixtus V. 2. Chapel of Paul V. 3. Obelisk found among the ruins of the Mausoleum of Augustus, and transported and erected there by Sixtus V. 4. Villa Montalto Signature: Designed and engraved by the Architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi Signature 2: Published by the Author in the Strada Felice in Palazzo Tomati near Trinità de Monti.