Jacques Philippe D'Orville, Jacobi Philippi D'Orville Sicula, quibus Siciliae veteris rudera, additis antiquitatum tabulis, illustrantur. Edidit, et commentarium ad numismata Sicula, XX. tabulis aeneis incisa, et ad tres inscriptiones majores, Geloam, Tauromenitanam, et Rheginam; nec non minorum inscriptionum syllogen, orationem in auctoris obitum, et praefationem adjecit Petrus Burmannus secundus. Pars prima [-secunda], Amsterdam, 1764
Jacques Philippe D'Orville (Amsterdam 1696 - 1751), scholar and professor of the University of Amsterdam, traveled to Sicily in 1727, visiting, among others, the towns of Selinunte, Agrigento and Syracuse and carefully describing monuments and archaeological sites. The work, written in Latin edited by Pietro Burmann and published posthumously, is divided into two parts accompanied by 55 engraved tables, of which 20 are dedicated to numismatics. The drawings were made by the architect Francesco Nicoletti from Trapani, who accompanied D'Orville in his Sicilian tour.
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