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Tafuri's third mistake appears also on page 15 of Architecture and Utopia: "The archeological mask of Piranesi's Campo Marzio fools no one: this is an experimental design and the city, therefore, remains an unknown."
It seems clear that it is precisely the "archeological mask" of the Campo Marzio that fooled Tafuri. Piranesi never intended the Ichnographia to be read as an archeological reconstruction, but as a wholly new reenactment of the Campus Martius. Piranesi's "experiment" is not in the design of the Campo Marzio per se, but in his Promethean delivery of historical (and architectural) narrative. As for the city delineated within the Ichnographia remaining an "unknown", this too is false because all one has to do is read (or translate) ALL the Latin labels within the Ichnographia to know the "city" it depicts.
[I cannot help but think that Tafuri was, like most who subsequently come to interpret the Ichnographia Campi Martii, too lazy to READ Piranesi's large plan completely.]
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