The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive ChristianityWithrow, W. H. (William Henry)
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The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity
Withrow, W. H. (William Henry)
Catacombs -- Italy -- Rome; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
[263] _Roma Subterranea novissima post Ant. Bosium et Joan.
Severanum._ Romæ, 1651. Two vols. fol. It is said that there
are only two copies of this work in America. Aringhi’s version,
being in Latin, is better known out of Italy than the Italian
treatises of Bosio, Boldetti, or Bottari.
[264] “Letters from Italy in 1685 and 1686.” Rotterdam. Pp. 209.
[265] _Li antichi lucerni sepolcrali figurante raccolte dale cave
sotterranea e grotte di Roma._ Roma, 1681.
[266] _Inscriptionum antiquarum quæ in ædibus paternis
asservantur etc._ Romæ, 1702.
[267] _De Cultu Sanctorum Ignotorum._
[268] _Osservazioni sopra i cemeteri dei SS. Martiri ed antichi
cristiani di Roma._ Roma, 1720.
[269] _Inscriptiones Antiquæ._ Amstelodami, 1707.
[270] _Novus Thesaurus Veterum Inscriptionum._ Mediolani, 1739.
[271] _Sculture e Pitture Sacre estratte dai Cimeteri di Roma._
Roma.
[272] His _Originum et Antiquitatum Christianorum_, Roma,
1749-51, treats especially on the sarcophagi of the Catacombs.
[273] This celebrated Jesuit projected a work “On the Use of
Ancient Christian Inscriptions in Theology.” See Migne, _Cursus
Completus Theolog._, vol. v, pp. 309, etc.
[274] Danzetta continued Zaccaria’s plan. His work, which he
called _Theologia Lapidaria_, left unfinished, was undertaken by
Geatano Marini, who spent many years collecting materials to
embrace the first ten centuries. He was interrupted by the French
Revolution, and his thirty-one volumes of MS. in the Vatican are
an unfinished monument of his learning and industry.
[275] In _L’Histoire de L’Art par les Monumens_. Six vols. fol.
Paris. D’Agincourt came to Rome intending to spend six months in
the study of this subject, but its fascination so grew upon him
that it occupied the remaining fifty years of his life.
[276] In Bunsen’s _Beschreibung der Stadt Rom_. Stuttgard, 1830.
[277] _Mémoire sur les antiquités Chrétiennes des Catacombes._
(_Mém. de l’Acad. des Inscr., XIII._) See also _Tableau des
Catacombes_.
[278] In _Les Trois Romes_.
[279] _Esquisse de Rome Chrétienne._
[280] _Sinnbilder und Kunstvorstellungen der Alten Christen._
Altona.
[281] _Veterum Scriptorum Nova Collectio._ Roma, 1831.
[282] _Monumenti delle Arti Cristiane Primitive nella Metropoli
del Cristianesimo._ Roma, 1844. The political troubles of the
year 1848 prevented its completion. The theological zeal of this
writer, however, has in many cases biassed his judgment. “In
every page of his work,” says a critic in the Edinburgh Review,
(January, 1859, Am. ed. ccxxi, p. 48,) “an exuberant desire to
find evidence in support of the later Romish doctrine among these
records of the primitive church predominates over every other
consideration.”
[283] London, 1857.
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