Description

Armondo publisher [Published Date: 1979]. Soft cover, 93 pp. Text in English. In very good condition. Glossy black and white illustrated paper covers with red lettering. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and aging. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations throughout. [From back cover] With visitors, one who loves his work, his profession-ALDO PASCOLINI - expert scholar of his ruins, is always available to young scholars or archaeologists in search of things, facts, explanations. Designer, and one should say painter of high expressive talent and at the same time of almost photographic honesty, he has dedicated to the historical and architectural « reconstruction » of Ostia described in this book years of learned and patient work. And he has offered more than a guidebook, of which, on the other hand, everyone felt the need. Through his drawings, he not only enables one to see again an almost active city, but he transmits his own enthusiasm to the reader, who may be a young scholar as much as an archaeologist, an erudite in history in search of events as much as a sociologist in search of social data; and every tourist, of whatever class, will be able to see come to life again with this guidebook, where 130 illustrations wind their way, all of the activities of a commercial and religious, civil and military city.