GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Theatre
 
Author(s) Estienne, Charles
  Parisian polygraph (1504-1564)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1552
Inscription
References Estienne 1552, ed. cit. 1553, p. 177
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 488-490 ; Constans 1921, pp. 278-297 ; Bonnerot 1935 ; Lestringant 1980, pp. 424-435 ; Gros 1996, pp. 292-293 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 89-90 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 287-301

Remarks

The college of Arles was built on the site of the theatre's stage; in 1664, it was replaced by the Convent of the Miséricorde; the theatre was not identified as such until the second half of the 17th century

Transcription 

« voy encor dans le college au hault de la ville, deux grands pilliers du temps des Romains, que lon dict estre les colonnes d’Hercules. »