El treinta y seis indica la edificación de Roma, por Rómulo su primer Rey: el campo Marcio con algunos soldados vencedores a las puertas de la Ciudad Casas de los Reyes el coloso de Apolo, puerta de San Pablo y sepulcro de Cayo VI.1
Commentary
Several times Aponte explains the content or structure of images in his own book by references to what he has merely heard from what he considers relevant sources. READ MORE
His comments on the images numbered 36 and 37 illuminate this particular “economy of information” (Barth 1990). On these pages, he tells us, are depicted “the founding of Rome by its first king, Romulus: the Campo Martio with some victorious soldiers, at the city gates, the houses of the kings, the Colossus of Apollo, the gate of St. Paul, and the tomb of Caius Sextus…” (Palmié 2002, 110)