British School at Rome: Papers of the British School at Rome (9.1920)

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Antiquae Statuae Urbis Romae. 139
2. A second edition was published in 1619, the address (lines 7-end)
being altered to the following :
Joseph de Rubaeis Mediols.
Formis Romae Anno
Domini M.DC. XIX.
I possess a copy of this edition without the title-page, and with
three extraneous plates inserted, bound at the end of a volume con-
taining the two books of Giovanni Maggi’s Aedificia et Ruinae Romae
and the Fontane Diverse che si vedano nel Alma Cittd di Roma, both
published by Giuseppe de Rossi in 1618. The other copies of the 1619
edition which I have seen are less complete, and the plates are in
all cases unnumbered.1 Giuseppe Rossi (or De Rossi) junior appears
as the successor of Van Aelst on prints after Tempesta2: and this
argues the existence of a Giuseppe de Rossi senior, who must, have
been the founder of the business. There is, however, so far as I
know, no print bearing his name in existence, and he is entirely unknown
to Ehrle and to Ozzola. We first meet with Giuseppe De Rossi junior
on the title-page of an edition of Tempesta’s Venationes, dated 1605
(the original edition bore the name- of Giovanni Orlandi, and the date
1602).3 This agrees with the evidence given by him in a trial of a case
between Giacomo Lauro and Francesco de’ Paoli in 1635, in which he is
described as a native of Gallaia4 in the State of Milan : he stated that his
shop was opposite S. Biagio alia Pace (which tallies, with the description
of the situation of Van Aelst’s shop) and that he had known Lauro for
over thirty years. Documents in the archives of S. Maria dell’Anima
1 There is a copy with eighty-five plates in the Biblioteca Nazionale at Naples
(203, B. 24) another in the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe at Rome with title and
eighty-three plates (51, H. 24 : Inv. 194986-195069) among which is Cav. i. ii. 8. Another,
with sixty plates, is at Eton (Topham Library, B. i. V. 37) and a fourth, with title and
forty-nine plates, in the library of the American Academy in Rome.
2 Bartsch, xvii. 170, 1165 ; 171, 1169 (both undated).
3 Bartsch cit. 165, 1075-1104 : the' name Apud Joseph de Rubeis has been added on
the left below in place of Joannes Orlandi formis ; Romae remains, and the date has been
altered. In Bartsch cit. 159, 861 I should suspect (without having seen it) that his name
had been added later also, as it bears date 1598. Ozzola (op. cit. p. 406, n. 30) is not able
to quote any print of his earlier than 1615 and noted one of 1636 (Bartsch, xx. 173. 8)
which bears a dedication to Cassiano dal Pozzo. It is by Andrea Podesta, after a picture
of Venus surrounded by Cupids, painted by Titian for the Duke of Ferrara.
4 Gallia (as it is now spelt) is a small village S.S.E. of Lomello, near the Po.