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Recto: The Port City of Alexandria (? Allusion to Dinocrates's Building of Alexandria, Vitruvius, Book 2, introduction, no. 1); Verso: Fragmentary Writing ("Libro Primo..."). — Sangallo family|Marcus Pollio Vitruvius | Open Metropolitan