Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the
death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome
was transformed by intense activity involving building construction
and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival
documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City
explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure
projects--sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct
construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the
relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman
emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of
an early modern Rome examines the many conflicts, failures, and
successes that shaped the city, as decision-makers tried to control
not only Rome's structures and infrastructures but also the people
who lived there. Taking up visual images of the city created during
the same period--most importantly in maps and urban
representations, this book shows how in a time before the
development of modern professionalism and modern bureaucracies,
there was far more wide-ranging conversation among people of
various backgrounds on issues of engineering and infrastructure
than there is in our own times. Physicians, civic leaders, jurists,
cardinals, popes, and clerics engaged with painters, sculptors,
architects, printers, and other practitioners as they discussed,
argued, and completed the projects that remade Rome.
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