About the Editors | i | |
Acknowledgments and Dedication | vi | |
Illustrations | vii | |
Abbreviations | viii | |
Introduction | 1 | |
The Author | 5 | |
The Treatise | 9 | |
The Translation | 15 | |
The Floods of the Tiber | 17 | |
Dedication and Introduction | 17 | |
Section 1: The Origin, Name, and
Divinity of the Tiber |
22 | |
Section 2: The Past Floods of the Tiber | 39 | |
Section 3: The Consequences of Floods | 75 | |
Sample Pages from the 1531 Edition | 85 | |
Transcription of the Latin Text | 89 | |
Documentary Appendix: Contemporary Reports of the Flood of 1531 | 123 | |
Anonymous of Bologna, Diluvio di Roma of 1530 | 124 | |
Benvenuto Cellini, Extract from his Autobiography |
132 | |
Giovanni Domenico Sanga, Letter to Duke Alessandro de’ Medici |
133 | |
Excerpt from the Journal of Cardinal Jerome Aléandre |
135 | |
Letters from the Diary of Marino Sanudo | 137 | |
Bibliography | 143 | |
Index | 159 |
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