Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century

Raffaele Fabretti's De aquis et aquaeductibus veteris Romae

Harry B. Evans

310 pages, parution le 08/04/2003

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Résumé

An insightful assessment of the work of Raffaele Fabretti, the first researcher of Rome's aqueduct system.

Aqueduct hunting has been a favorite pastime for visitors to Rome since antiquity, although serious study of how the Eternal City obtained its water did not begin until the seventeenth century. It was Raffaello Fabretti (1619-1700), the well-known Italian antiquarian and epigrapher, who began the first systematic research of the Roman aqueduct system.

Fabretti's treatise De aquis et aquaeductibus veteris Romae dissertationes tres is cited as a matter of course by all later scholars working in the area of Roman topography. Its findings, while updated and supplemented by more recent archaeological efforts, have never been fully superseded. Yet despite its enormous importance and impact on scholarly efforts, the De aquis has never been translated from the original Latin. Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century provides a full translation of and commentary on FabrettiÕs treatise, making it accessible to a broad audience and carefully assessing its scholarly contributions.

In addition to the complete translation and commentary, focusing primarily on the topographical problems and FabrettiÕs contribution to our understanding of them, Harry B. Evans offers the reader an introduction to Fabretti and his scholarly world. Evans assesses the contributions and corrections of later archaeologists and topographers, and places the De aquis in the history of aqueduct studies.

Evans demonstrates that FabrettiÕs conclusions, while far from definitive, are indeed significant and merit wider attention than they have received to date. This book will appeal to classicists and classical archaeologists; ancient historians; and readers interested in the history of technology, archaeology, and Rome and Italy in the seventeenth century.

Contents

Fabretti the aqueduct Hunter
Fabretti's De aquis
Dissertation I on the Waters and Aqueducts of Ancient Rome
Dissertation II on the Waters and Aqueducts of Ancient Rome
Dissertation III on the Waters and Aqueducts of Ancient Rome
conclusion
Works Cited

L'auteur - Harry B. Evans

Harry B. Evans is Professor of Classics, Fordham University.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The University of Michigan Press
Auteur(s)	Harry B. Evans
Parution	08/04/2003
Nb. de pages	310
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	660g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780472112487
ISBN13	978-0-472-11248-7