Antiquae urbis Romae cum regionibus simulachrum

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Rome, or Rhomulus, founded his square city with four regions and gates, including these four hills: the Palatine from the East, the Capitoline from the West, the Aventine from the South, and the Exquiline, that is, S. Pietro in Vincoli, from the North. Servius Tullius later had eight gates and regions. The divine Augustus later had sixteen gates and regions. Finally, there were thirty-four gates with individual regions, and the more important matters of them according to the description of Pliny, omitting their circuit, baths, oil tables, salt works, the number of butchers, fishmongers, neighborhoods, islands, houses, baths, granaries, flour mills, and wells (which they call lakes in the second declension), and many other things which are found in the booklets that circulate about the regions of the city. Although many things are rashly stuffed into them, such as the names of certain neighborhoods, why not all of them? Because more are not read on the square stone Cippus a sepulchral or commemorative monument of the statue of the divine Hadrian, which is also seen today in the Capitol, in the corner of the Portico of the Conservators. And many other things besides these are added ineptly and with little Latinity from Pliny and other writers. All of which M. Calvo, a citizen of Ravenna, has followed and digested, having studied Livy, Varro, Dionysius, Pliny, Sextus Rufus, and many others who have written about these, with the great diligence of the energetic man Ludovico Vicentino assisting, as well as under the auspices and patronage of the most ample Father Flamendialis, that is, crowned with the cardinal's hat and prefect of the Apostolic Treasury, D. F. Harmellini Medices. Indeed, he takes care that many things not much inferior to these are done; among which is a place where his young men of Perugia receive all disciplines with food. Whose sixteen regions, or as the booklets of the regions present, and Pliny, and the inscription of the statue of the divine Hadrian (which is seen in two places on the Capitoline hill), there are fourteen: since they make the Circus Flaminius and the Campus Martius one; and likewise they place the Transtiberina and the Vatican as one.