City Drawing in De Nola’s Tables. Geometric-Dimensional Analysis of the Iconographies

This paper introduces the analysis of the ancient city of Nola through the comparative study of two Tables among the four attached to De Nola Treatise (1514) by Ambrogio Leone, also in comparison with the contemporary city. These drawings are an important graphic-documentary testimony of the finds of the ancient city in the Renaissance period as well as the theoretical-geometric knowledge of the author discussed in this essay. Starting from the graphic analysis of Table II entitled Nola Vetus, this research studies its geometric-dimensional aspects, based on the Science of Drawing, not only for a critical reinterpretation of Tables attached to Treatise but also to connect the ancient city to the traces still today present in the contemporary territory. This essay consolidates the multifaceted character of the author as a draftsman, topographer and typographer as well as a humanist scholar, together with the essays by Argenziano and Pisacane in this Proceedings book and in continuity with the research already presented at the UID 2020 Conference.