The text is structured as continuous text and is rarely divided into different columns. It is merely a narrative, supported by pictures and illustrations. However, the author’s text is obviously in the foreground.
The illustrations are of all kinds. In addition to descriptions of situations and coin-like illustrations, architectural drawings, perspective views and explanatory repetitive images are also used.
The images are mostly used to accompany or illustrate the text and are therefore embedded in the text. More important illustrations, however, can also take up half or even the whole page. Towards the end of the book, the engravings become larger and larger and are more in the focus of the viewer. The last 100 pages of the book contain no text at all. This appendix is a collection of pictures, mainly coin-like illustrations of different people.
The illustrations are not numbered, but always have a picture description at the bottom of the picture. This description was the illustration depicted and/or which people are involved.
In the front part of the book, the author’s narrative and description is clearly in the foreground and the images are only used to support the text. The text discusses what is depicted. Further on in the book, the author makes more and more use of the pictures as an explanation of the text, which is why the illustrations become larger and larger. Until only pictures are printed in the appendix
In my opinion, this book is a manual, if not a kind of diary. In which the author’s opinion is presented as an undisputed fact. He writes and describes his view on Rome and weighs up what is important to mention and what is not. He also uses historical facts and his own authority, which apparently gives him the authority to write this text.