Ager Puteolanus, siue, Prospectus eiusdem insigniores
An engraved topographical series of Roman villas and monuments around Lake Avernus and the Puteoli region, published in Rome in 1652 by Giovanni Giacomo Rossi from plates by Francesco Villamena, a printmaker working around 1566 to 1624. The pictures are bird's-eye views of ancient sites with Latin labels, intended for antiquarians and travellers. A designer might take from them the tidy aerial plan of walled villa grounds, dense hatched hillsides, and the crisp hand-cut line that makes ancient ruins read as diagrams.
