In Folio (mm 395x270); pp. (18 unnumbered), 244, (12 n.n.). Very rich iconographic apparatus with 34 plates finely engraved in copper, of which 32 are out of text. Among the splendid plates in fresh impression are the prospectus of the Roman Theater in two unbound sheets and the magnificent plate with the plan of the city, folded several times (here in the rare version with the addition of the plates with references to the plan), the Veronese territory with the portrait of Sarayna, the two ichnographic plates, the view of the Amphitheater, the Naumachia, the stupendous view of St. Peter's Hill from Ponte Nuovo, all on double sheets, some taken from the Veronese painter Giovanni Caroto and the humanist Torello Sarayna, engraved by F. Huret and John Georgi; also shows portraits of Fracastoro and Montano; remaining plates depict mainly Roman archaeological finds. Splendid architectural frontispiece with allegorical figures, the lion of St. Mark standing in the center above the tympanum (signifying Venetian rule) and a plan of the city in the lower predellina; portrait of the author also within architectural frieze. The refined iconographic apparatus of this work accompanies the history of the city and illustrious Veronese.Eighteenth-century green half leather with gold title on orange gusset at spine with five Greek friezes. Magnificent historiated capitals and headpieces with phytomorphic and grotesque decorations, engraved in silograph. The work, which remained unpublished until 1647, is considered under the iconographic profile, the most important and richest publication on the city of Verona. This print run is but a later issue of the first one with some slight changes in the course of printing; it was republished twice more, in 1658 and 1668. The introduction by printer Paolo Frambotti explicates the events of the publication of the work at the instigation of the Veronese civic authorities as an act of homage to their fellow citizen for this his "posthuma proles," entrusted first to the care of Paolo Malaspina and Marco Antonio Clodio, who were later joined by others. The author (Verona 1530 - Palermo 1568), an Augustinian scholar who moved to Rome at a very young age, devoted his investigations to the study of Roman antiquities after his early ecclesiastical studies carried out in his city and acquired great fame. Pius IV appointed him reviser to the Vatican Library. His works of considerable interest include, in addition to the Antiquitatum veronensium, the Commentarii ai Fasti (1558), the Commentarii ai Trionfi, the Comizi imperiali, etc. The manuscript sheets written by Panvinio, preserved at the Bibl. Vaticana, are valuable sources on Roman monuments, as well as remarkable evidence of his critical method: he in fact compared historical sources with artistic ones. Splendid specimen with partly bearded sheets. Binding with some traces of time (slight abrasion to edges and corners). Cicognara 4059: "Work distinguished for the care with which the monuments of the city are illustrated."