Andrea Fulvio (in his Latin publications and correspondence Andreas Fulvius; –1527) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet and

antiquarian An antiquarian or antiquary () is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artefacts, archaeological and historic si ...

active in

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, who advised

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...

in the reconstructions of

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as settings for his frescoes. Fulvio was Raphael's companion and ''cicerone'' as they explored the ruins, Fulvio showing Raphael what was essential to be drawn and ex temporising on them. Fulvio published two volumes. One contained the first attempts at identifying famous faces of Antiquity from numismatic evidence, his richly illustrated ''Illustrium imagines'' of 1517, the portrait heads possibly by Giovanni Battista Palumba. The other was a guide to the city's antiquities, ''Antiquitates Urbis'', published in the disastrous year 1527. For a more popular market, his ''Antiquitates Urbis'' were translated into Italian by Paolo Del Rosso and published at Venice in 1543 with the title '' Opera delle antichità della città di Roma & delli edificij memorabili di quella''. It proved so useful as a guidebook in Italian that it was updated by Girolamo Ferrucci and reprinted at Venice in 1588 with the title ''L'antichità di Roma di nuovo con ogni diligenza corretta & ampliata''. ''Antiquitates Urbis'' furnished more than a new guide to the antiquities of Rome seen by a humanist's critical eye, the first of a genre of antiquarian topographical studies that extends to our time. It also remarked upon the introduction of printing to Rome in the previous generation and identified a few collections, such as

Angelo Colocci Angelo Colocci (; 14671549) was a papal secretary of Pope Leo X, a romance Philology, philologist, and a Renaissance humanist. He assembled a large collection of antiquities in his villa beside the Aqua Virgo. Life Colocci was born in 1467 at I ...

's antiquities in his villa beside the

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and Andrea Cardinal della Valle's Roman coins. Many of the astute observations recorded in Fulvio's ''Antiquitates Urbis'' have withstood time's tests: the half-lifesize Roman bronze ''Camillus'', then known as the ''Zingara'' ("Gypsy Woman"), he first identified as a young serving lad, and the Marphurius he recognized as a reclining river god, a Roman iconographical type unknown to the previous generations of antiquarians. He remarked upon the pacifying gesture of the equestrian Marcus Aurelius.The observations are noted by Haskell and Penny 1981.

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