ROME

Le Antichita Della Citta de Roma, raccolte sotto brevita da diuersi antichi et moderni Scrittori...  By Bernardo Gamucci.  [8], 201 ff.  Illustrated with woodcut initials, woodcut printers device on title, 38 full-page woodcuts plus a fold-out woodcut plan of Rome.  8vo., 145 x 100 mm, bound in contemporary vellum, with the 1581 stamped on the front cover.  [Venice: Giovanni Varisco, 1569].   Second Edition, first octavo edition and first with Thomaso Porcacchi's corrections.  One of the earliest illustrated guides to Rome, depicting the principle ruins of the ancient city with a series of informative woodcuts.  This second edition (the first was published in 1565) includes valuable corrections provided by Thomaso Porcacchi (1530-1585), renowned author and translator, best known for his book L'Isole piu famose del Mondo (The Most Famous Islands of the World).    Gamucci's guide was a popular work because of its simple format and illustrations clearly intended for less informed touris