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Puteus sacer agri bononiensis : jussu sanctissimi domini nostri Benedicti XIV. P.M. commentario illustratus

Paciaudi, Paolo, 1710-1785 · 1756 · Romae : Excudebant fratres Palearini · 7 pictures

A Latin antiquarian commentary by the Theatine scholar Paolo Paciaudi on a sacred well and its Roman inscriptions in the Bolognese countryside, printed in Rome by the Palearini brothers in 1756 for the Vatican under Benedict XIV. Woodcut and etched vignettes show lidded cinerary urns among trees, inscribed tablets, a rococo tailpiece lettered FINIS, and scrolling headbands with putti.

Inscriptions, Latin

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