Stato del Ponte Felice : rappresentato alli eminentissi[m]i e reverendissimi signori cardinali della S.C. dell' acque

Martinelli, Agostino, 17th cent, Tinassi, Nicolangelo, 17th cent · 1682 · In Roma : Per Nicolò Angelo Tinassi · 10 pictures

A 1682 Roman printed report on the state of the Ponte Felice bridge, written by Agostino Martinelli and published by Nicolò Angelo Tinassi for the cardinals of the Congregation of Waters. Its pages are dense italic text with small hand-drawn plans of the Pontine plain, the Magliano fields, roads and waterways, showing the bridge's position among rivers and channels. A designer could take from them the clean, schematic cartography of early modern engineering, with simple line drawings of roads, river courses and labelled sites.

Bridges

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