Studium Urbis Conference on Nolli
"Giambattista Nolli, Imago Urbis and Rome"
31 May - 2 June 2003

AVAILABLE EDITIONS OF NOLLI'S WORK

Imago Terrae, Publisher of the 1748 Nolli Plan on-site in Rome

During the three day conference, various editions of Nolli's Plan will be available for purchase from Imago Terrae (www.imago-terrae.com), the official facsimile publisher and distributor of Giambattista Nolli's 1748 La Pianta Grande di Roma.


1) The Full-Scale Nolli Facsimile Portfolio
(208 x 173 cm; 82" x 68"), 2nd ed., 1991.
$180.00 USD per portfolio

This includes the Pianta Grande itself printed on archival 85 lb. cover paper. The plan itself is printed in line offset on archival acid-free 65 lb. Mohawk cover paper with a sheet size of 32" by 22". The plan in 12 sheets (assembled dimensions: 82" wide by 68" high); 2 small plans (approximately 27" wide by 17" high): the first, by Piranesi and Nolli, is a reduction of the 12 sheet Pianta Grande; the second is Nolli's tribute republication of the 1551 first true plan of Rome by Leonardo Bufalini; 4 sheets of index; and title page. All of the above comprising the first true facsimile of the suite as published by Giambattista Nolli, being exactly the same dimensions of the 1748 edition.

Also included is a 12 page bi-lingual (English/Italian) essay, Portrait of a City, by Allan Ceen, with illustrations, which discusses the significance of the plan as the eighteenth century benchmark of urban topography and cartography, the iconography of the decorations, the background and history of the plan and its makers, a chronology of G.B. Nolli's life, an annotated legend for the Pianta Grande translated from the Italian avvertimento, and a bibliography.


2) The Half-Scale Nolli Poster Version
(109 x 91 cm; 36" x 43").
$35.00 USD each

This is a high resolution, half-scale reproduction of the fully assembled Pianta Grande and is printed on a single poster-sheet with the above-listed dimensions.


Payment with order on-site at the Studium Urbis during the conference. For more information, including shipping information and prices if you only want to place an order while in Rome, please contact Imago Terrae info@imago-terrae.com, P.O. Box 576, Pine Hill, NY 12465 USA. http://www.imago-terrae.com