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Description:This is an account of the Roman Catacombs compiled from the works of Giovanni B. De Rossi by J. Spencer Northcote and W.R. Brownlow. Originally published in one volume in London in 1869, this kindle edition is volume one of the two-volume second edition, "rewritten and greatly enlarged," published in 1879 in London. It is fully edited with linked footnotes and contains 11 “chrome-lithographs” and 55 “wood engravings.” This first volume (PART FIRST: HISTORY) is devoted to the history of the Catacombs generally, and a description of the Cemetery of Callixtus in particular; while the second volume (PART SECOND: CHRISTIAN ART) deals only with the subject of early Christian Art. Giovanni De Rossi was a distinguished Christian archaeologist, best known for his work in connection with the Roman catacombs, born at Rome in 1822; died at Castel Gandolfo on Lake Albano, 20 in 1894. De Rossi, the modern founder of the science of Christian archaeology, was well-skilled in secular archaeology, a master of epigraphy, an authority on the ancient and medieval topography of Rome, an excellent historian, and a very productive and many-sided author. He was universally acknowledged, even in his lifetime, as the prince of Christian archaeologists. In addition to his professional acquaintance with archaeology De Rossi had a thorough knowledge of law, philology, and theology. De Rossi conducted his excavations together with his brother Michele, who was educated as a mathematician and as a geologist. The two of them performed a detailed topographical study of the catacombs, which was published in three separate volumes as 'La Roma Sotterranea Cristiana' in 1864, 1867, and 1877. During his life De Rossi wrote some two hundred publications, many of them concerning the catacombs, as a result of which he has had a great influence on the research of the catacombs. Northcote and Brownlow, two English canons and Catholic converts, decided to “embody in a work of our own the most interesting and important facts” which De Rossi’s magisterial volumes contain. As De Rossi himself noted after the English compilation was published: “The two English authors, thoroughly at home with their subject, knowing the places and monuments from having seen them and studied them in all their details, have remodeled my work, without subjecting themselves to a servile imitation of its arrangement; they have even augmented it by matter borrowed from my ‘Bullettino di Archeologia Cristiana,’ from the works of other archaeologists, and from their personal studies. They have thus made of it a new and partly an original book.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with ROMA SOTTERRANEA (An Account of the Roman Catacombs, Especially of the Cemetery of St. Callixtus): PART FIRST: HISTORY Vol. I. To get started finding ROMA SOTTERRANEA (An Account of the Roman Catacombs, Especially of the Cemetery of St. Callixtus): PART FIRST: HISTORY Vol. I, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This is an account of the Roman Catacombs compiled from the works of Giovanni B. De Rossi by J. Spencer Northcote and W.R. Brownlow. Originally published in one volume in London in 1869, this kindle edition is volume one of the two-volume second edition, "rewritten and greatly enlarged," published in 1879 in London. It is fully edited with linked footnotes and contains 11 “chrome-lithographs” and 55 “wood engravings.” This first volume (PART FIRST: HISTORY) is devoted to the history of the Catacombs generally, and a description of the Cemetery of Callixtus in particular; while the second volume (PART SECOND: CHRISTIAN ART) deals only with the subject of early Christian Art. Giovanni De Rossi was a distinguished Christian archaeologist, best known for his work in connection with the Roman catacombs, born at Rome in 1822; died at Castel Gandolfo on Lake Albano, 20 in 1894. De Rossi, the modern founder of the science of Christian archaeology, was well-skilled in secular archaeology, a master of epigraphy, an authority on the ancient and medieval topography of Rome, an excellent historian, and a very productive and many-sided author. He was universally acknowledged, even in his lifetime, as the prince of Christian archaeologists. In addition to his professional acquaintance with archaeology De Rossi had a thorough knowledge of law, philology, and theology. De Rossi conducted his excavations together with his brother Michele, who was educated as a mathematician and as a geologist. The two of them performed a detailed topographical study of the catacombs, which was published in three separate volumes as 'La Roma Sotterranea Cristiana' in 1864, 1867, and 1877. During his life De Rossi wrote some two hundred publications, many of them concerning the catacombs, as a result of which he has had a great influence on the research of the catacombs. Northcote and Brownlow, two English canons and Catholic converts, decided to “embody in a work of our own the most interesting and important facts” which De Rossi’s magisterial volumes contain. As De Rossi himself noted after the English compilation was published: “The two English authors, thoroughly at home with their subject, knowing the places and monuments from having seen them and studied them in all their details, have remodeled my work, without subjecting themselves to a servile imitation of its arrangement; they have even augmented it by matter borrowed from my ‘Bullettino di Archeologia Cristiana,’ from the works of other archaeologists, and from their personal studies. They have thus made of it a new and partly an original book.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with ROMA SOTTERRANEA (An Account of the Roman Catacombs, Especially of the Cemetery of St. Callixtus): PART FIRST: HISTORY Vol. I. To get started finding ROMA SOTTERRANEA (An Account of the Roman Catacombs, Especially of the Cemetery of St. Callixtus): PART FIRST: HISTORY Vol. I, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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