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The Vatican Necropoles: Rome's City of the Dead.

LIVERANI,Paolo, and SPINOLA, Giandomenico.

Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, [2010]. Hardcover. Introduction by Francesco Buranelli. Translation by Saskia Stevens and Victoria Noel-Johnson. Contribution by Pietro Zander. Folio. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 350pp. Extensive color illustrations. Fine/fine. Item #49202
ISBN: 9782503535784

First English-language edition of this exceptional study, superbly illustrated, of the massive archeaological excavations of numerous funerary sites found underneath St. Peter's Basilica, digs begun in 1940 and continuing until the late 1950s. Tight and pristine.

Price: $150.00