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Write to <a href="mailto:romapip@quipo.it">romapip@quipo.it</a> (alternative e-mail address <a href="mailto:romeartlover@hotmail.it">romeartlover@hotmail.it</a>).<p class="stacco"> <a href="New.htm"><img class="displayed" src="Newnuovo.jpg" title="See the most recent additions to this website" height=135 width=180></a> <p class="stacco"><a href="superind.html"><img class="displayed" src="Sitemap.jpg" height=135 width=180 title="See a detailed list of this website pages"></a></p> <p class="stacco">Notes:<p class="stacco">Page revised in January 2023. </div> </div> <div id="sidebar"><div class="boxed"> <p class="stacco"> <img class="displayed" SRC="Index.jpg" style="border:5px solid DarkGoldenRod" title="Goethe in Rome" height=550 width=730> <em><h2>Wilhelm Tischbein - <a href="Goethe.html">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a> in the Roman countryside, in the background <a href="Vasi59a.htm#Cecilia Metella">Cecilia Metella's tomb</a> and <a href="Furba.html#Claudia">Aqua Claudia</a></h2></em> <p class="stacco"> Giuseppe Vasi published between 1747 and 1761 <a href="Books.html">ten books</a> of etchings on the monuments of Rome (Sulle Magnificenze di Roma Antica e Moderna). The plates were grouped by subject: churches, gates, bridges, palaces, villas, etc.. The books became a bestseller among the foreigners visiting Rome. Vasi then wrote a guide (Itinerario istruttivo per ritrovare con facilita tutte le magnificenze di Roma e di alcune citta', e castelli suburbani) for visiting Rome in eight days and driven by the success of this guide he published in 1765 the <a href="View.htm">Grand View of Rome</a>, which was accompanied by a <a href="Vasigrs1.html">Grand View of Campo Vaccino</a>. In 1781 he completed his work with a <a href="Map.html">Map of Rome</a>.<p class="stacco">The View shows 390 points of interest grouped in the eight itineraries of the guide: <br><a href="Day1.htm">Day 1</a> From <a href="Vasi84.htm">Ponte Molle</a> (Milvio) to <a href="Vasi47.htm">S. Croce in Gerusalemme</a> <br><a href="Day2.htm">Day 2</a> From <a href="Vasi07.html">Porta Maggiore</a> to <a href="Vasi187.html">Villa Borghese</a> <br><a href="Day3.htm">Day 3</a> From <a href="Vasi21.htm">Via del Babbuino</a> to the <a href="Vasi46sl.html">S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura</a> <br><a href="Day4.htm">Day 4</a> From <a href="Vasi85.html">Via di Ripetta</a> to <a href="Vasi76.htm">Palazzo Massimi</a> <br><a href="Day5.htm">Day 5</a> From <a href="Vasi134.htm">S. Andrea della Valle</a> to <a href="Vasi92.htm">Isola Tiberina</a> <br><a href="Day6.htm">Day 6</a> Trastevere <br><b><a href="Day7.htm">Day 7</a> From <a href="Vasi89.htm">Ponte Sisto</a> to <a href="Vasi87.htm">Ponte Trionfale</a> <br><a href="Day8.htm">Day 8</a> The Vatican<br>plus <a href="Digression.html">A Short and Delicious Digression in the Environs of Rome</a>: From <a href="Vasi83.htm">Ponte Salario</a> to <a href="Porto.html">Porto</a> <p class="stacco"><a name="Smollett"></a> <img class="displayed" SRC="Nollmini.jpg" usemap="#Nollmini.jpg" title="The itineraries" height=348 width=419 style="border:5px solid DarkGoldenRod"> <MAP NAME="Nollmini.jpg"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="24,29,131,78" href="Day8.htm" title="Day 8: the Vatican"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="133,29,187,117" href="Day4.htm" title="Day 4: from Via di Ripetta to Palazzo Massimi"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="197,21,212,149" href="Day1.htm" title="Day 1: from Ponte Milvio to S. Croce in Gerusalemme"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="238,185,388,255" href="Day1.htm" title="Day 1: from Ponte Milvio to S. Croce in Gerusalemme"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="208,29,249,158" href="Day3.htm" title="Day 3: from Via del Babbuino to S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="122,89,153,159" href="Day7.htm" title="Day 7: from Ponte Sisto to Ponte Trionfale"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="264,68,372,183" href="Day2.htm" title="Day 2: from Porta Maggiore to Villa Borghese"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="73,123,149,198" href="Day6.htm" title="Day 6: Trastevere"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="139,209,276,324" href="Day5.htm" title="Day 5: from S. Andrea della Valle to Isola Tiberina"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" coords="173,146,201,203" href="Day5.htm" title="Day 5: from S. Andrea della Valle to Isola Tiberina"> </MAP> <h2><em>Sketch of the eight itineraries</em></h2> <p class="stacco"><em>I furnished myself with maps and plans of antient and modern Rome, together with the little manual, called, Itinerario istruttivo per ritrovare con facilita tutte le magnificenze di Roma e di alcune citta', e castelli suburbani. But I found still more satisfaction in perusing the books, intitled, Roma antica, e moderna, which contain a description of everything remarkable in and about the city, illustrated with a great number of copper-plates, and many curious historical annotations.</em><br><a href="Smollett.html">Tobias Smollett</a> - Travels through France and Italy - 1766.<br><em>November 7, 1786. I have now been here seven days, and by degrees have formed in my mind a general idea of the city. We go diligently backwards and forwards. While I am thus making myself acquainted with the plan of old and new Rome, viewing the ruins and the buildings, visiting this and that villa, the grandest and most remarkable objects are slowly and leisurely contemplated. I do but keep my eyes open and see, and then go and come again, for it is only in Rome one can duly prepare oneself for Rome.</em><br>J. W. Goethe - Italian Journey - Translation by Charles Nisbet<br><em>Vasi, Mannazale </em>(Andrea Manazzale - Rome et ses environs - 1802)<em>, and that tribe of vade-mecums, may serve you the first week as mere valets-de-place in print, but you will soon dismiss them as insufficient. Those people parcel out Rome into day's-works, and throw every thing together, ancient or modern, sacred or profane, that lies in the same round. This plan is convenient enough for them who desire only to shew or to see Rome; but whoever would study it must arrange the objects of his study in a different order, deduced either from their kind or their age.</em><br><a href="Forsyth.html">Joseph Forsyth</a> - Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters in Italy in 1802-1803<br> <em>As a guide to Rome, Vasi's book is worth all the books of travels put together. It is all that it professes to be, and no more, - a mere catalogue; but it is comprehensive and accurate. There is nothing to direct the taste or influence the judgment; - but a traveller should observe for himself, and, it is much better that he should not see through the eyes of others.</em><br><a href="Matthews.html">Henry Matthews</a> - Diary of an Invalid - 1817/1818<br> Vasi provided not only a detailed view of <a href="Facades.html">Baroque Rome</a>, but also of <a href="Rome.htm">Ancient Rome</a>, <a href="Mages.htm">Medieval Rome</a>, <a href="Rena.htm">Renaissance Rome</a> and <a href="Manne.htm">Mannerist Rome</a>.<br> This site contains also pages on <a href="Fuoriroma.html">many other locations</a>, always with an eye to how they were in the past. You may wish to see a list of travel accounts about <a href="Biblio.html#Roma">Rome</a> and other <a href="Biblio.html#abroad">towns/countries</a> which are quoted in this website. 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