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Giambattista Nolli (or Giovanni Battista) (April 9, 1701 – July 3, 1756),
was an Italian architect and surveyor.
He is best known for his ichnographic plan of Rome,
the Pianta Grande di Roma
which he began surveying in 1736 and engraved in 1748,
and now universally known as the Nolli Map.
The map is composed of 12 copper plate engravings that together measure 176 centimetres by 208 centimetres.
It was produced and published in response to the comm…