«Libro delle cose di Napoli, Capua et Pottioli». Ricerche sulle antichità campane tra Ligorio e altri antiquari italiani ed europei del XVI secolo

This article examines the relationships between Pirro Ligorio's early antiquarian studies of Campanian monuments, as documented in his lost manuscript "Libro delle cose di Napoli, Capua et Pottioli", and the scholarly networks of contemporary European architects and antiquarians. Beyond the previously established connections between the manuscript's surviving fragments and similar drawings in the Destailleur B codex (Hermitage) and the Antoine Morillon codex (Eton College), this study reveals new links with Andrea Palladio's investigations of the Neapolitan temple of the Dioscuri and Philibert de l'Orme's documentation of the ancient thermal complex at Tripergole, destroyed during the Monte Nuovo eruption of 1538. Through comparative analysis of these interconnected graphic sources, the article demonstrates how Ligorio's archaeological drawings circulated throughout sixteenth-century European scholarly networks, influencing architectural theory and antiquarian methodology across national boundaries.