Vetus Latium profanum: De Tusculanis et Algidensibus
Vetus Latium profanum, a 1742 antiquarian study of the ancient Tusculan and Algidan territories near Rome, written by Giuseppe Rocco Volpi and aimed at scholars of Roman antiquity. The engraved plates show Roman coins and medallions, a schematic ground plan of Tusculum, and ruined walls, tombs and a circular theatre-like earthwork drawn with careful, measured line. A designer could borrow the orderly grid of plans and the dense hatching used to render stone masonry and foliage.
