GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Velasco, Lázaro de
  Chief architect of the cathedral of Granada (1550-1600?)
Resource type Manuscript
Date 1550-1564
Inscription
References Velasco 1923, I, p. 217
Bibliography

Constans 1921, pp. 298-324 ; Rosenthal 1958, pp. 329-346 ; Gros 1991, pp. 49-50 ; Gros 1996, pp. 335-337 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 89 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 274-283

Remarks

The edifice evoked by Velasco is the amphitheatre and not the theatre, which had not yet been identified at this time

Transcription 

« En nra España está el Teatro de Monviedre y en Tarragona donde oy en día se muestran las ruinas y en Nimes en Francia cerca de Narbona y en Arles. »