VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (1st century BCE). De architectura libri dece. Translated by Cesare Cesariano (c.1478-1543). Commentary by Cesariano, Benedetto Giovio and Massimo Bono Mauro. Como: Gottardo da Ponte for Agostino Gallo and Aloisio Pirovano...
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (1st century BCE). De architectura libri dece. Translated by Cesare Cesariano (c.1478-1543). Commentary by Cesariano, Benedetto Giovio and Massimo Bono Mauro. Como: Gottardo da Ponte for Agostino Gallo and Aloisio Pirovano, 15 July 1521.
The Como Vitruvius, one of the finest illustrated books of the Italian Renaissance. The fine woodcuts, clearly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, are largely the work of Cesariano himself, and the three plates showing plans and elevations of Milan cathedral are considered 'the earliest authentic representations of Gothic architecture in a printed book' (Fowler). Cesariano’s important translation from Latin into Italian - its first printing in any vernacular language - was completed by Giovio and Bono Mauro. Gottardo da Ponte was brought specially to Como to print this edition with the financial backing of Agostino Gallo and Luigi Pirovano and in a print-run of 1300 copies. This copy with the corrected state of the heading ('tutta lopera') on the final leaf. Adams V-904; Berlin Kat 1802; Dibner Heralds 170; Fowler 395; Millard Italian 158; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 544; RIBA 3519.
Folio (396 x 268mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and penultimate leaf, numerous large historiated and foliated initials, 117 woodcut illustrations, 9 full-page (first and last quires sometime removed, cleaned and recased, first leaf restored in the margins, some waterstaining mostly in margins to quires A and B, last three leaves with old restoration, touching several letters in the errata, without impairing legibility). 16th-century brown morocco tooled in gilt and blind, unidentified armorial at centre (restored, modern endpapers).
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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (1st century BCE). De architectura libri dece. Translated by Cesare Cesariano (c.1478-1543). Commentary by Cesariano, Benedetto Giovio and Massimo Bono Mauro. Como: Gottardo da Ponte for Agostino Gallo and Aloisio Pirovano, 15 July 1521.
The Como Vitruvius, one of the finest illustrated books of the Italian Renaissance. The fine woodcuts, clearly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, are largely the work of Cesariano himself, and the three plates showing plans and elevations of Milan cathedral are considered 'the earliest authentic representations of Gothic architecture in a printed book' (Fowler). Cesariano’s important translation from Latin into Italian - its first printing in any vernacular language - was completed by Giovio and Bono Mauro. Gottardo da Ponte was brought specially to Como to print this edition with the financial backing of Agostino Gallo and Luigi Pirovano and in a print-run of 1300 copies. This copy with the corrected state of the heading ('tutta lopera') on the final leaf. Adams V-904; Berlin Kat 1802; Dibner Heralds 170; Fowler 395; Millard Italian 158; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 544; RIBA 3519.
Folio (396 x 268mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and penultimate leaf, numerous large historiated and foliated initials, 117 woodcut illustrations, 9 full-page (first and last quires sometime removed, cleaned and recased, first leaf restored in the margins, some waterstaining mostly in margins to quires A and B, last three leaves with old restoration, touching several letters in the errata, without impairing legibility). 16th-century brown morocco tooled in gilt and blind, unidentified armorial at centre (restored, modern endpapers).
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