Ippolito Rosellini - Monumenti Dell' Egitto E Della Nubia

Monumenti Dell' Egitto E Della Nubia

Since Rosellini could not get any support from the Tuscan government, he decided to finance the publication himself. In order to raise the necessary funds he sent his friend and collaborator Alessandro Ricci to Germany and England to sell copies in advance of the publication, the proceeds of which would allow him to begin paying the printers. Champollion agreed to collaborate in writing some parts of the work, but he died prematurely on March 4, 1832. The final version of the work was edited with the assistance of Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, but the relationship between the two ended when Champollion's brother demanded that he become the sole editor of the work.

In the following four years, eight volumes were published, and after the death of Rosellini on June 4, 1843 in Pisa, the nine volumes of text comprised no less than 3,300 pages, while the atlas contained 390 large plates by the artists Giuseppe Angelelli, Salvatore Cherubini, Nestor L'Hote and Gaetano Rosellini.

The work was subdivided into three main sections:

• Ancient monuments
• Civil monuments
• Religious monuments