De Triclinio Sive De modo convivandi apud priscos Romanos, & de conviviorum apparatu
De Triclinio, a 1664 Latin treatise on how the ancient Romans dined and arranged their banquets, compiled from the work of Pedro Chacon, Fulvio Orsini and Girolamo Mercuriale and held by Heidelberg University Library, written for scholars of antiquity. The engravings show reclining diners on couches around round tables, attendants serving, and crowded banquet scenes in arched halls, offering a designer period furniture arrangements, table settings and classical crowd compositions for historical costume or stage work.
