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Naples, in the Royal Printing House, 1815 – 1819. 4th, portrait of the author, enclosed in a medallion, engraved on copper by Domenico Biondi based on a design by Auria voll. 3; pp. XXVII-444; 536; 642 with 5 large plates, designed by Domenico Guerra, engraved on copper by Gennaro Giuliani and Giuseppe Guerra and printed in the Morghen workshop depicting: two fragments of the Peutinger Table concerning the ancient Kingdom of Naples, ancient coins and two large and detailed topographic maps of Kingdom (northern and southern) adorned with an artistic cartouche; toponymy in Latin. Slight blooms, light browning, traces of humidity on the third volume. Contemporary binding mz. leather, double gusset, gold title and friezes on the spine, colored cuts. Both the Peutinger tables and the kingdom maps can be brought together to form two large kingdom maps measuring cm respectively. 66 x 28 and 100 x 40 cm.
Specialist Notes
The only information we have on the life of Domenico Romanelli (Fossacesia 1756 - Naples 1819) comes from the work "Historical Memoirs of Writers Born in the Kingdom of Naples" by Camillo Minieri Riccio (page 301). He completed his studies at the Seminary of Chieti, where he taught rhetoric until his move to Naples in 1790. In 1808 he was appointed director of the "Library of the Cross" responsible for collecting volumes from the suppressed monasteries. He was interested in studies on the history and topography of the kingdom and was the author of several works on the subject including "Ancient and Modern Naples" (1815); Journey to Pompeii, Pesto and Herculaneum (1815) and reprinted with the addition of Pozzuoli in 1817 and "Ancient historical topography of the Kingdom of Naples"; in this work Romanelli collects all his studies and the fruit of his research and is the last one completed; the first volume was published in 1815 and the second in 1818 and the third in 1819 shortly before his death.
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