1565 L'Architettura Tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Bartoli antique ILLUSTRATED

Alberti, L.B.

L'Architettura Tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da C. Bartoli.

Venice, Franceschi ; 1565

With woodcut title border, portrait woodcut verso, 83 pages (of which 1 double-page and 37 full-page), text woodcuts.

404 pages, 14 leaves.

Original vellum binding.

- Index Aureliana 102.394. Adams A 489. Cicognara 376. Gamba 1186. Fowler p. 9. Millard Coll. 7 (with ill. on p. 22). Third edition of Bartoli's translation, the first in quarto (Italian EA Florence 1550). -

- Pages 13-16 are missing; two leaves ("Proemio") from another edition of the work are bound in.

Some are slightly stained, title page on the reverse underlined (below the portrait) and with handwritten title page, front cover loose.


Otherwise very good condition

Size about 6 3/4 by 9 inches

Text in Italian
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  Leon Battista Alberti (Italian: [1404 – 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of European cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.

He is often considered primarily an architect. However, according to James Beck, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts". Although Alberti is known mostly as an artist, he was also a mathematician and made significant contributions to that field.
Among the most famous buildings he designed are the churches of San Sebastiano (1460) and Sant'Andrea (1472), both in Mantua.

Alberti's life was told in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
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