The modern return of the water in Rome is due to the determination of two Popes Sixtus V [1585-1590] and Paul V [1605-1621]. For the management and control of new water resources, they created appropriate institutional bodies entrusted to administrators and architects with special hydraulic knowledge. The water became one of the major themes of scientific investigation with a deep impact on the production of treatises, manuals and literature. Completely unknown to scholars is the unpublished treatise Delli effetti delle acque di Vincenzo Della Greca Architetto civile, et militare della Regia Camera Apostolica [1642], which anticipates in contents and illustrations the work of C. Fontana, L’Utilissimo trattato delle Acque Correnti [1692].
An Unpublished Treatise on Waters by Vincenzo Della Greca: A Source of Carlo Fontana’s ‘Utilissimo Trattato Delle Acque Correnti’ / Tabarrini, Marisa. - STAMPA. - 1:(2012), pp. 629-635. (Intervento presentato al convegno Fourth International Congress on Construction History tenutosi a Parigi, Versailles nel 3-7 luglio 2012).
An Unpublished Treatise on Waters by Vincenzo Della Greca: A Source of Carlo Fontana’s ‘Utilissimo Trattato Delle Acque Correnti’
TABARRINI, Marisa
2012
Abstract
The modern return of the water in Rome is due to the determination of two Popes Sixtus V [1585-1590] and Paul V [1605-1621]. For the management and control of new water resources, they created appropriate institutional bodies entrusted to administrators and architects with special hydraulic knowledge. The water became one of the major themes of scientific investigation with a deep impact on the production of treatises, manuals and literature. Completely unknown to scholars is the unpublished treatise Delli effetti delle acque di Vincenzo Della Greca Architetto civile, et militare della Regia Camera Apostolica [1642], which anticipates in contents and illustrations the work of C. Fontana, L’Utilissimo trattato delle Acque Correnti [1692].I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
