[Albertini, Francesco]:

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SEPTEM MIRABILIA ORBIS ET URBIS ROMAE ET FLORENTINAE CIVITATIS CUM EPYTAPH. PUL. First edition of this short work by Francesco Albertini on the wonders of the world, including those of Rome and Florence, containing a brief but important, early reference to Amerigo Vespucci's voyages to the New World. With a publication date of February 7, 1510, Septem Mirabilia was issued three days after Giacomo Mazzocchi published Albertini's much longer guidebook to ancient and modern Rome, Opusculum de Mirabilis Novae et Veteris Urbis Romae, on February 4. A Florentine priest, Francesco Albertini (ca. 1469-1521) had been commissioned by Cardinal Galleotto delle Rovere, nephew of Pope Julius II, to write the Opusculum, an accurate and up-to-date guide to the city of Rome, as a replacement for the Mirabilia Romae Urbis, a guidebook first produced in the 12th century in response to the demand from pilgrims for an historical and artistic itinerary to the city. Described by Albertini as "a little treatise on the seven wonders of the world and the city" (our translation), Septem Mirabilia is a sort of complement to the Opusculum, listing the various wonders of the ancient world - Thebes, Babylon, the pyramids of Egypt, the Colossus of Rhodes, etc. - as well as those of Rome and Florence. To Albertini's seven wonders of ancient Rome - the Aqueduct of Claudius, the Baths of Diocletian, the Forum of Nerva, the Pantheon, the Colosseum, Hadrian's Tomb, and the Lateran Complex - he adds a list of sev

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