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<dl><dd>Running title: Discorso sopra la guglia</dd>
<dd>Papal arms on t.p.; woodcut initials</dd>
<dd>"Dialogo di Fabritio et Agapito Fossani sopra il discorso della guglia fatto da Camillo Agrippa", p. 29-47</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-F</dd>
<dd>Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.</dd>
<dd>Library's copy 1 with: Ordo dedicationis obelisci quem S.D.N. Sixtvs V. pont. max. in Foro Vaticano ad limina apsotolorum erexit / P. Galesinivs, Romae : B. Grassi, 1586 -- Discorso di M. Filippo Pigafetta d'intorno all'historia della agvglia et alla ragione del muouerla, In Roma : B. Grassi, 1586 -- Familiaris qvaedam epistola e Roma in Hispaniam missa ... Romae : A. Gardanus &amp; F. Coattinus, 1586</dd>
<dd>Leaf of plates (dated 1582, 42 x 56 cm.) showing Agrippa's plan for moving the obelisk is bound in to Library's copy 1 at the end of the vol. after its several additional titles. Library's copy 2 lacks this plate</dd>
<dd>Library's copy 2 with: Discorso de M. Filippo Pigafetta d'intorno all'historia della agvglia at alla ragione del muouerla, In Roma : B. Grassi, 1586 (copy 2)</dd>
<dd>47, [1] pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : 22 cm</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-F⁴</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Agrippa, Camillo, d. 1595?; Obelisco vaticano (Vatican City); Obelisks; Hoisting machinery; Conveying machinery; Mechanical engineering; Agrippa, Camillo, -1595? Trattato di trasportar la gvglia in sv la piazza di San Pietro; Obelisco vaticano (Vatican City) -- Early works to 1800; Obelisks -- Vatican City -- Early works to 1800; Hoisting machinery -- Early works to 1800; Conveying machinery -- Early works to 1800; Mechanical engineering -- Early works to 1800; Buildings; Vatican City -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Vatican City</div>
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Agrippa, Camillo, -1595?</div>
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