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[ Mola di Gaeta ] Mola

Stock# 107503

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Pietro Bertelli

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[ Mola di Gaeta ] Mola

Publication Place / Date

Venice / 1599 circa

Image Dimensions

7.5 x 5 inches

Color

Uncolored

Condition

VG+

Stock# 107503

$295.00

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Description

Detailed view of Mola di Gaeta from the first edition of Bertelli's Theatrum Urbium Italicarum, first published in Venice in 1599.

Includes a detailed image of the town, harbor, fortified walls and a coat of arms.

The transcription reads:

Transcription:

"TV QVOQVE LITTORIBVS / TRIS AENIA NVTRIX Æ, / TRINA MORIENS FAMA / CAIETA DEDISTI"

Translation:

"You too, Aeneas' nurse, gave your name to these shores, / Three times famed in death, / You, Caieta."

This is a poetic reference to Caieta, the nurse of Aeneas, whose death and burial were said to have given her name to the coastal town of Gaeta (Latin: Caieta). The Latin text likely draws on Virgil's Aeneid, where Caieta's death is mentioned, and her burial place along the shores is commemorated.

Pietro Bertelli Biography

Pietro Bertelli published the Theatrum Urbium italicarum in Venice in 1599 and thereafter.

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