Author: ODERICO, G.L.
Title: Dissertationes et adnotationes in aliquot ineditas veterum inscriptiones et numismata. Accedunt inscriptiones et monumenta quae extant in bibliotheca monarchum Camaldulensium S. Gregorii in Monte Coelio explicationibus illustrata.
Description: Rome, Franciscus Bizzarini Komarek, 1765. 4to. xii, 428 pp. With engraved title vignet by Putini, frontispice by A. Zaballi after G. Giusti, portraying the Italian prince Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra Barberini, to whom Monaldini dedicated this work, engraved dedication-leaf, 6 (1 folding) engraved plates, 2 folding woodcut-plates, 12 text-engravings & 2 folding tables. Contemporary parchment binding, title in ink. (slightly bumped, spine-ends a bit frayed, old entry removed from upper paste-down, a few very small tears, a few pages a bit browned; good copy.) ¶ Oderico (1725-1803), was professor in theology at the Scots College in Rome, but he was devoted to antiquities; he arranged the medal collection in the Museum Kircherianum, and after the suppression of the jesuit order, went to Genua and was designated librarian of the national university. (see Sommervogel V/ 1868.).

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