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Eyewitness to Old St Peter's

Maffeo Vegio's ‘Remembering the Ancient History of St Peter's Basilica in Rome,' with Translation...

Christine Smith (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Joseph F. O'Connor (Catholic University of America, Washington DC) Maffeo Vegio

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English
Cambridge University Press
20 June 2019
Old St Peter's Basilica in Rome stood for over eleven centuries until it was demolished to make room for today's church on the same Vatican site. Its last eyewitness, Maffeo Vegio, explained to the Roman hierarchy how revival of the papacy, whose prestige after the exile to Avignon had been diminished, was inseparable from a renewed awareness of the primacy of Peter's Church. To make his case, Vegio wrote a history founded on credible written and visual evidence. The text guides us through the building's true story in its material reality, undistorted by medieval guides. This was its living memory and a visualization of the continuity of Roman history into modern times. This volume makes available the first complete English translation of Vegio's text. Accompanied by full-color digital reconstructions of the Basilica as it appeared in Vegio's day.

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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 261mm,  Width: 184mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   900g
ISBN:   9781108496858
ISBN 10:   1108496857
Pages:   322
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Christine Smith is Robert C. and Marion K, Weinberg Professor of Architectural History in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Massachusetts. A recipient of the Founders' Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, she has won grants and fellowships from the Kress Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation, among many others. She is the author of Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Eloquence, 1400-1470 (1992). Joseph F. O'Connor is Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC. He is co-author, with Christine Smith, of Building the Kingdom: Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and Spiritual Ediface (2007).

Reviews for Eyewitness to Old St Peter's: Maffeo Vegio's ‘Remembering the Ancient History of St Peter's Basilica in Rome,' with Translation and a Digital Reconstruction of the Church

'… Learned and thoughtful book.' Maffeo Vegio, Speculum


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