Travelling, Measuring and Drawing Ancient Rome
Date: Wednesday 5 February 2020
Time: 17:00
Venue
TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College
Mistakes, misinterpretations and misattributions in Antoine Desgodets’ Les edifices antiques de Rome (Paris 1682), a chained book from Merton’s Upper Library.
Speaker: Gian Piero Milani, Merton Archaeology Scholar.
There was a special guest appearance by the Merton copy of Les edifices antiques de Rome, unchained from its usual place in the Upper Library.
A History of the Book Group/Chalcenterics joint event.
