Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece Traducti de Latino in Vulgare affigurati:

MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO; CESARIANO, Cesare Di Lorenzo (translator and artist) (Italian, 1483 - 1543)

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commentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti: per il quale facilmente potrai tovare la multitudine de lí abstrusi & reconditi Vocabuli a li soi loci & in epsa tabula con summo studio expositi & enucleati ad Immensa utilitate de ciascuno Studioso & benivolo di epsa opera.[Como, Lombardy] : Gotardus de Ponte, 1521. Folio (430 x 290 mm), contemporary full vellum, spine with manuscript title and ornament; title page with woodcut printer's device and early ownership signature of Giovanni Battista Forzano (of Savona) dated 1600; ff. [I], II-IIII, [V-VIII], I-CLXXXIII, [1 errata], illustrated with 117 woodcuts in the text (10 full-page); two hand-drawn diagrams by Forzano at margin of f. 72 (recto); first few leaves of preliminaries with roughened top edge and a small worm trail towards bottom edge (hardly affecting the text), last 11 leaves with varying degrees of paper repair and restoration at top margin (affecting the foliation but again, scarcely encroaching on the text), otherwise a superb copy with very wide margins, crisp and bright and with only very occasional and light spotting. The theories of the Classical Roman writer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (active late 1st century BCE - early 1st century CE), particularly those ontheatrical perspective and stage architecture, had a major influence on the Italian Renaissance. The so-called Como Vitruvius, printed in an edition of only 1300 copies, is the first edition of hisDe Architectura translated into a living language (Italian). The translation was made byCesaredi LorenzoCesariano(1475?1543). A painter, architect and architectural theorist, Cesariano was an important figure in the field of architecture in Milan in the early sixteenth century. In1535 he was appointed director of construction in the Duomo, having earlier worked as one of the collaborators in its decoration. Although we only have approximate dates for his birth and death (born circa 80 B.C.; died after 15 B.C.), we do know that the life and career of the Roman architect and civil engineer Vitruvius spanned the last years of the Republic and the first phase of the Imperial period under the Emperor Augustus, Vitruvius' patron to whom theDe architectura was dedicated. This comprehensive treatise, covering all aspects of architecture, construction and technology, was probably written around 15 B.C. and is the only contemporary source for classical architecture that we have. The work was lost until rediscovered in a Swiss monastery in 1414; it was first printed (in Latin) in 1486. The work was originally accompanied by illustrations, but these have not survived. Divided into ten sections, or "books", the work discusses urban planning; building materials; temples; civic buildings; domestic buildings; pavements; the construction of machines; technology such as the hypocaust (underfloor heating) and aqueduct, and the influences of the various sciences on architecture. Adams, V-914; Sander, 7696 Trove locates no copy of this important edition of Vitruvius in Australian libraries (SLV has the first and last leaves of the book only); a copy is held in the National Gallery of Australia. Seller Inventory # 30144

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