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Opusculum de mirabilibus novae et veteris urbis Romae
Albertini, Francesco degli, -1520
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across major library catalogs (including LOC, OpenAlex, and general search tools) yielded no evidence of an English translation of Francesco degli Albertini's 'Opuscula de mirabilibus novae et veteris urbis Romae' (1515). While the work is a well-known Renaissance guide to Rome, it remains accessible primarily in its original Latin or early Italian versions. No complete or partial English translations were identified in any of the searched databases.
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Francesco Albertini captures the tension between Rome’s decaying imperial ruins and its aspirations under Pope Julius II. Read this to see a 16th-century scholar map the physical remains of an empire while demanding a new Christian crusade.