Eyewitness to Old St Peter's A Study of Maffeo Vegio's ‘Remembering the Ancient History of St Peter's Basilica in Rome,' with Translation and a Digital Reconstruction of the Church
Book contents
- Eyewitness to Old St. Peter’s
- About the Authors
- Eyewitness to Old St. Peter’s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I The Canon and the Basilica
- Introduction
- One Maffeo Vegio
- Two The Text
- Three A Humanist Looks at a Medieval Marvel
- Four Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Part II The Text
- Part III The Image
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Three - A Humanist Looks at a Medieval Marvel
from Part I - The Canon and the Basilica
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 July 2019
Book contents
- Eyewitness to Old St. Peter’s
- About the Authors
- Eyewitness to Old St. Peter’s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I The Canon and the Basilica
- Introduction
- One Maffeo Vegio
- Two The Text
- Three A Humanist Looks at a Medieval Marvel
- Four Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Part II The Text
- Part III The Image
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Vegio opens “Remembering St. Peter’s” with the claim that he acquired a new understanding of the basilica through both what he read and what he saw (I.1). We were able to identify his literary sources in almost every instance: The reader will find his specific references in the notes to our translation; the works available to him at St. Peter’s are discussed in our Chapter 1; and how he appropriated his reading in his own writings is examined in Chapter 2.
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- Eyewitness to Old St Peter'sA Study of Maffeo Vegio's ‘Remembering the Ancient History of St Peter's Basilica in Rome,' with Translation and a Digital Reconstruction of the Church, pp. 75 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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Bibliographic Note
Indispensable for the reconstruction of what was in St. Peter’s in Vegio’s time is S. De Blaauw, Cultus et decor: Liturgia e architettura nella Roma tardoantica e medievale (Vatican City 1994, 2 vols., vol. 2), where individual objects can be searched in the index. For papal tombs, especially useful is W. Reardon, The Deaths of the Popes (Jefferson, 2004). This information can then be cross-checked with the identifications in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sources like Tiberio Alfarano, De Basilicae Vaticanae antiquissima et nova structura, ed. M. Cerrati (Rome, 1914); and Giacomo Grimaldi, Descrizione della basilica antica di San Pietro in Vaticano, ed. R. Niggl (Vatican City, 1972), and especially with his well-known plan locating the sites on ff. 497–8. Further bibliography is in our notes to Vegio’s text and in the scholarly apparatus to the chapters in Part III of this book.Google Scholar