gilius Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Does anyone have any info on this Roman town? Was it a proper Roman town? Also, any ideas what this map is? http://estensi.altervista.org/Forum_Alieni_Ferrara.JPG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maladict Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Also, any ideas what this map is? Other than that the answer is actually in the picture? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maladict Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Does anyone have any info on this Roman town? Was it a proper Roman town? It has been linked to Ferrara and other places in the delta, but I don't think any kind of proof has ever materialised. The delta being what it is, that's not entirely surprising I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilius Posted July 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Also, any ideas what this map is? Other than that the answer is actually in the picture? It mentions that it's from a gallery of maps from inside the Vatican, but any ideas on the name of this individual map? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maladict Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 (edited) It's the actual gallery, the walls have maps painted on them. I'm not sure they have individual names, but iirc there's only one map of Roman Italy. Edited July 22, 2011 by Maladict Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilius Posted July 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 It's the actual gallery, the walls have maps painted on them. I'm not sure they have individual names, but iirc there's only one map of Roman Italy. That map is unique so it must have it's own name... I'll see if I can track down the guidebook to the galleries, though this map probably is well known in isolation. There can't be too many sources with "Forum Alieni". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maladict Posted July 26, 2011 Report Share Posted July 26, 2011 Sure, because some Renaissance-era painting with no verifiable scientific accuracy whatsoever mentions some obscure place, it must have a name. Nice logic you got going there I'm going to take a guess and say it's called 'ancient Italy'. A unique name for a unique map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maty Posted July 28, 2011 Report Share Posted July 28, 2011 FORUM ALLIENI a city of Gallia Cisalpina, mentioned only by Tacitus (Tac. Hist. 3.6) during the civil wars of Vitellius and Vespasian, A.D. 69, but in a manner that affords little clue to its position, except that it was situated on some river, the passage of which it was important to defend. Cluver was inclined to place it at Ferrara, on the Po; others have fixed on Legnago, on the Adige, between Mantua and Padua, which is certainly the more probable site, and agrees better with the movements of the campaign. (Cluver, Ital. p. 155; Orell. ad Tac. l.c.) Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) The map itself looks like a medieval reconstruction of the area between Vicenza and Modena as it was in Roman times. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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