‘ Un vehemente deseo de comprender la imagen de aquel famoso Templo se adueña de mí ’. Seeing and understanding the Temple of Solomon according to Juan Bautista Villalpando S.J. (1605)

From 1596 to 1605, three imposing in-folio volumes of erudition and craftsmanship successively came out of the Zanetti and Chacón presses in Rome. Combining ...