Vetus Latium profanum & sacrum: De Latio gentili
Vetus Latium profanum & sacrum is an Italian antiquarian treatise by Pietro Marcellino Corradini, published in 1705, on the ancient Latium region around Rome, written for scholars and collectors of antiquities. Its engravings are rotated plates of Roman ruins, including arched brick walls, a stepped causeway, a plan of a brick facade with rows of windows, and a line of tomb-like niches among trees, drawn in fine hatched line with minimal shading that a designer could use as a reference for classical masonry and archaeological layout.
