GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Anonymous Italian writer
  Milanese merchant (14..?-15..?)
Resource type Manuscript
Date 1519
Inscription
References Anonymous 24180 f. 77v°= Monga 1985, p. 165
Bibliography

Constans 1921, pp. 298-324 ; Monga 1985 ; Gros 1991, pp. 49-50 ; Gros 1996, pp. 335-337 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 89 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 274-283

Remarks

Connected with the Borromei bank, this merchant travelled for business between 1517 and 1519 in France, Spain, the Netherlands and England

Transcription 

« In Arle, quale è città antiquissima, li he uno coliseo assay grande, ma è tutto destructo, itta che non li sono più scalini alcuni, et in mezo li sono case. »