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The explanation is given in one of the first pages (Emendatio Temporum, compendio facta ab initio mundi ad præsens usque. Qua, præter alia plurima, restituta sunt Nativitas et Baptisma et Cruciatus ... Christi ad annos fere quaternos post vulgi calculos). eu =Evangelij (praedicati) ... from the...

I was fantasizing about the possibility that circuses can be always found near Palaces and Domuses. If someone could prove that those structures always come in pairs, then there could also be a circus in Terracina. Maybe a little bit wild though... If we assume that Piranesi was representing...

I had read about that possible connection on Fomenko's book "Vatican", which some years ago was available in Italian translation on his website. In the Libreria Piccolomini in Siena (Libreria Piccolomini; Siena Cathedral) you can find many portraits and paintings regarding Aeneas Silvius...

I've right now realised something even more incredible, in my mind. On a website that you know :) @Bogdan brought to my attention the existence of an illustration representing a structure called "Palace of Theodoric" located in Terracina, Italy, and inserted in a book published in 1835 by...

I searched this painting. Its title is "Antiquus Circi Martial. Cum Monum. Adiacentia Prospectus Ad Viam Appiam". Circi is obviously a Roman circus, which is an hippodrome. The central part of the picture represents the spina of the hippodrome, like in this picture of the Hippodrome of...

The description of the image says that these were the allied cities. The internal circle represents Arezzo, Orvieto, Rome, Perugia, Viterbo, Pisa, Lucca and Florence. The external circle represents Massa, Grosseto, Pistoia and Volterra. About the Senese Wolf, it is said on the Italian wiki (Lupa...