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Capua - Pellegrino, Camillo

Apparatus to the Antiquities of Capua or True Speeches of the Happy Campaign., 1771

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Naples, Gravier, 1771. In  4th, vols. 2, pp. (8)-XLIII (including front page and coat of arms engraved on wood)-496-(8)-VII-38-352, with two large topographical maps engraved on copper and folded several times: Campania Felix and Capua. Contemporary full parchment binding, gilt title on the spine, colored edges. 

Specialist Notes

Second enlarged edition of various additions and manuscript notes by Pellegrino, some notes by Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi and three "Discorsi" taken from History of the Longobard Princes. The "Apparatus.." by Camillo Pellegrino, divided into four speeches or dissertations, is one of the most important historical-topographical descriptions of the territory which included the ancient province called "Campania Felix  or Terra di Lavoro" and of its cities following the itineraries of the Via Domiziana and the Via Appia from Liri and Volturno to Naples (Minturno, Sessa, Literno, Pozzuoli and the Campi Flegrei) and then Capua, Caiazzo, Nola and Forche Caudine. One of the "Discourses" deals with agriculture, crops, oenology and livestock breeding.

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