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Vasi was a famous man and artist up to the 1760s, when
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Vasi played a major role as a cartographer and as writer as well. As a cartographer his major work remains the giant map of Rome, published in the early 1760s but conceived at least 20 years before; as an author, Vasi wrote nine out of ten books of the "Magnificenze" (II to X) and the "Itinerario
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Istruttivo". The "Itinerario", first published in the 1760s as well, turned out to be one of the most successful enterprises akin: translated in French and later in
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and later, around 1736, moved to Rome. After a period of intense visits and studies, Vasi started to work as an engraver in the
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