Athanasii Kircheri è Soc. Jesu Latium, id est, Nova & parallela Latii tum veteris tum novi descriptio : qua quaecunque vel natura, vel veterum Romanorum ingenium admiranda effecit, geographico-historico-physico ratiocinio, juxta rerum gestarum, temporumque seriem exponitur & enucleatur
Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit scholar, produced this 1671 Latin description of the Lazio region near Rome, printed in Amsterdam by Janssonius and the Weyerstraet heirs for learned readers interested in antiquity and natural history. Its engravings show ruined Roman buildings with arched vaults and hillside settlements, a regional map with mountains and river bends, and a crater lake with towns on its rim, offering a designer dense, layered views of ruins and terrain.
