Main entry:

Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

Title & Author:

Palladio's Rome : a translation of Andrea Palladio's two guidebooks to Rome / by Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.

Description:

lxiii, 285 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Restrictions:

Closed Stack.

Notes:
Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-274) and index.
The antiquities of Rome : succinctly compiled from authors both ancient & modern (1554) -- Description of the churches, stations of the cross, indulgences, and relics of the bodies of saints, in the city of Rome (1554) -- Appendix. The letter to Leo X / by Raphael and Baldassare Castiglione (c.1519) -- Commentary.
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Summary:

"Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome's ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next. He also described ancient Roman rituals of birth, marriage and death. Here translated into English and joined in a single volume for the first time, Palladio's guidebooks allow modern visitors to enjoy Rome exactly as their predecessors did 450 years ago." "Like the originals, this new edition is pocket sized and therefore easily read on site. Enhanced with illustrations and commentary, the book also includes the first full English translation of Raphael's famous letter to Pope Leo X on the monuments of ancient Rome. For architectural historians, tourists and armchair travellers, the book offers insights into the antiquarian and ecclesiastical preoccupations of one of the greatest of the Renaissance architectural masters."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0300109091 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300109092 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300151470 (pbk.)
9780300151473 (pbk.)

Subject:

Palladio, Andrea 1508-1580 Descritione de le chiese, stationi, indulgenze & reliquie de corpi sancti, che sonno in la città de Roma
Palladio, Andrea
Palladio, Andrea. Descritione de le chiese, stationi, indulgenze & reliquie de corpi sancti, che sonno in la città de Roma.
Architecture Italy Rome Guidebooks Early works to 1800.
Architecture Italie Rome Guides Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture
Buildings
Gebouwen.
Rome (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italy) Guidebooks Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italie) Constructions Guides Ouvrages avant 1800.
Rome (Italie) Guides Ouvrages avant 1800.
Italy Rome
Schrift

Form/genre:

travel guidebooks.
Early works
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Hart, Vaughan, 1960-
Hicks, Peter, 1964-
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580. Descritione de le chiese, stationi, indulgenze & reliquie de corpi sancti, che sonno in la città de Roma. English.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245408
Call No.: BIB 175042
Status: Available