Roma Sotterranea Or An Account Of The Roman Catacombs

Author : J. Spencer Nothcote
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ISBN 13 : 9781332577842
Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book Roma Sotterranea Or an Account of the Roman Catacombs written by J. Spencer Nothcote and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Roma Sotterranea or an Account of the Roman Catacombs: Especially of the Cemetery of St. Callixtus; Compliled From the Works of Commendatore De Rossi With the Consent of the Author In the Preface to the first edition of this work, published in 1869, we said - "The interest which the Roman Catacombs have excited in the minds of our countrymen, especially of those who have visited the Eternal City, has long made us wish to present them with that most full and accurate information upon the subject which is contained in the 'Roma Sotter-Ranea' of De Rossi. "Two courses were open to us; either to bring out a translation from the Italian original, or to embody in a work of our own the most interesting and important facts which those volumes contain. The first would have been incomparably the easier, and in some respects the more satisfactory, course. But the size and cost of such a work would have put it entirely beyond the reach of many whom we were most anxious to benefit. We therefore decided on the plan adopted in the volume which we now introduce to our readers, and which, we believe, will be found to contain as fair a summary as its dimensions would allow - not only of De Rossi's two volumes of 'Roma Sotterranea, ' published in 1864 and 1867, but also of many articles in his bi-monthly 'Bullettino di Archeologia Crisiiana, ' of papers read by him before learned societies in Rome and elsewhere, and of his occasional contributions to works published by others, such as the 'Spicilegium Solesmense' of Cardinal Pitra, &c." Our plan seemed to be generally approved; for the edition was soon exhausted in England, and translations were made both in France and Germany. This second edition therefore has been prepared upon the same principles. The arrangement of some part of the matter has been slightly changed, and great additions have been made by incorporating the substance of the third and most important volume of De Rossis work, which appeared in 1877. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.