Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

by Pamela O. Long

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects--sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022654379X
• ISBN13: 9780226543796
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 10.0"