Fountains of Papal Rome

Chapter 39: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A richly illustrated guide traces the history, design, and setting of Rome’s public fountains, from ancient waterworks through papal restorations, explaining aqueducts, technical innovation, and the civic and aesthetic roles of water in urban life. It surveys major piazzas and individual monuments—including St. Peter’s, Quattro Fontane, Trevi, Navona, and others—detailing architects, sculptors, patronage, decorative motifs, and phases of repair and alteration. Descriptive essays combine architectural analysis and historical background with observations on topography and urban context, and are supported by engraved illustrations and indexes of aqueducts, popes, and artists mentioned in the text.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages that referenced them, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed near the end of the book, just before the index.

The indices were not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

The Errata listed at the beginning of the book have been corrected in this eBook.