Vrbis Romae topographia. Nvper ab ipso avctore nonnvllis erroribvs svblatis emendata. Addita etiam interpretatione Nominum, quae unica Litera, uel Syllaba in antiquis titulis scripta inueniuntur. Cui etiam ab eodem adiectae svnt qvam-breuissimae obseruationes de praenomine, nomine, & cognomine. De quibus etsi multi multa scriptsere, nemo tamen hactenus rei ueritatem attigisse videtur
A 1544 Latin topography of ancient Rome by Bartolomeo Marliani, printed in Rome for scholars and antiquaries, with a revised text and notes on Roman names. Its pictures are plan-view woodcut diagrams of buildings and ground layouts, with a few Latin captions and numerals, showing walls, rows of pillars and rounded niches drawn in hatched line. A designer could draw on their clean architectural plan notation, hatching, and grid-like repetition of forms.
