Tomorrow, January 26, at 5pm. The initiative is organized by the international association 'Friends of Pompeii' Ets, and scheduled in the auditorium of the archaeological park, which presents the work in three volumes 'Nova Bibliotheca Pompeiana, Herculanensis, Stabiana Oplontinaque. Analytical bibliography and encyclopedic repertoire on the Vesuvian cities' by Laurentino Garcia y Garcia (Arbor Sapientiae Publisher, 2023). With the author, Grete Stefani and Antonio Varone present the complete bibliographic collection of texts, with about 50 thousand indexed entries on the cities buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD.
'Nova Bibliotheca Pompeiana, Herculanensis, Stabiana Oplontinaque', in three volumes, is an encyclopedic work that gives a comprehensive view of everything that has been produced, from classical sources to medieval and renaissance ones, from the first reports of the eighteenth-century excavations to the monographs, articles, stories published over the years. Among the themes developed in recent years, archaeobotany, archaeometric research and new technologies applied to archaeological excavation, the world and the role of women, aspects of eroticism, research in the field of painting, mosaic, studies of the economic-social aspects of production and trade of goods. With contributions from authors, historians, archaeologists, journalists and scholars accompanied by cards and comments.
'Compiling a bibliography - writes in the preface Laurentino Garcia y Garcia - is always a daunting task, especially considering that, even when the work seems to be completed, new publications, related to the same subject, immediately arouse the desire for their inclusion, like pieces of a large mosaic. However, when the bibliography embraces such a vast area, like that concerning the buried cities of Vesuvius, the work becomes endless and almost prohibitive'.