GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Miscellanea
 
Author(s) Chasseneuz, Barthélemy
  Jurist and president of the parliament of Provence (1480-1541)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1529
Inscription
References Chasseneuz 1529, pars XII, consideratio LX, f. 67v°
Bibliography

Papillon 1742, I, pp. 132-138 ; DLF XVIe siècle, p. 261 ; Rebourg 1993 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Remarks
Transcription 

« Pendent opera interrupta, mireque muros ingentes. Incredibiles et edificiorum antiquorum moles, palatia, strata, columne, statue, pontes, aqueductus, verum omnes mirant portas stratasque viarum, et que quotidie effodiunt marmora, complura monumenta, & Pyramides que adhuc extant non vetustate ac sumpte, vident & cauerne fornices, fundamenta sub agris, sub ecclesiis, sub multorum ciuium domibus, ex quibus quanta olim fuerint edificia preclara, quanta insuper fuerit. »