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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
Even in the last three centuries so much that was of archaeological value among the ruins of Ancient Rome has been destroyed, that any record of the existing remains which dates back as far as the 16th century must be of interest to the modern student.
The great revival of classical architecture which took place in the sixteenth century induced all the chief architects of that time to study with special care even the smallest fragments of the former architectural glory of the ancient city. Among the many professional architects of that time who measured and copied both the general form and the details of the classical remains, none did so with greater zeal and more patient labour than Pirro Ligorio in the preparation of his copious work L'Antichità di Roma, which still exists as a MS. in thirty folio volumes among the royal archives at Turin.
page 489 note a Vol. ii. p. 19 (Parma edition of 1781).
page 493 note a See the drawing given in Middleton's Ancient Rome in 1885, p. 150.
page 495 note a Called by Ligorio the temple of Jupiter Stator.
page 486 note a Called by Ligorio the temple of Castor and Pollux.
page 506 note a Now known as the Villa Farnesina: recent writers have attempted to show that the palace itself was designed by Raphael, but the evidence of Ligorio is decisive. Moreover, Peruzzi's original sketch-plan for the building still exists in the Uffizi Library at Florence.