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Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn : Kircher's Latium and its legacy
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- Creator
- Harry B. Evans
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780472118151, 0472118153
- OCLC
- ocn768168452
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : tackling topography -- Preliminaries : Latium, the church, the pope, and Kircher's preface -- It all started with Noah -- Latium's lake country, the Alban Hills -- Villas and a tomb : Tusculum and the Ager Tusculanus -- Praeneste : Barberini town and its mosaic -- Villa country : Tivoli and its surrounding territory -- The Sabines and Volscians -- Draining the Pomptine marshes : a not-so-modest proposal -- Habent sua fata libelli : Fabretti's reading of Kircher -- The legacy of Kircher's Latium