Main entry:

Vitruvius Pollio, author.

Title & Author:

Di Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De architectura libri dece : traducti de latino in vulgare, affigurati, cõmentati, & con mirando ordine insigniti: per il quale facilmente potrai trouare la multitudine de li abstrusi & reconditi vocabuli a li soi loci & in epsa tabula con summo studio expositi & enucleati ad immensa utilitate de ciascuno studioso & beniuolo di epsa opera.

Publication:

Impressa nel amœna & delecteuole Citate de Como : P. Magistro Gotardus da Põte ..., M.D. XXI. XV. mẽsis Iulii [1521, 15. July]

Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, CLXXXIII leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations (woodcuts), map, plans ; 43 cm (fol.)

Notes:
First translation into Italian from the Latin with commentary and illustrations, by Cesare Cesariano.--Cf. Caption, leaf I. The text was completed and corrected by Mauro Bono and Benedetto Giovio.--Cf. Publishers' note, leaf [CLXXXIIII].
Colophon, leaf CLXXXIII, reads: Qui finisse Lopera præclara de Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De architectura traducta de latino ĩ uulgare: historiata e cõmentata a le spese e instantia del magnifico. D. Augustino Gallo citadino comense e regio referendario in epsa citate: e del nobile. D. Aluisio da Pirouano patricio milanese: emendata e castigata cum sũmo studio e diligẽtia excepto alchune poche cosse quale sono poste ne la infrascripta tabula de li errori li quali non se hano possuto fugire per lãgustia dil tẽpo: ...
Imprint from conclusion of colophon.
Signatures: [pi]⁸A-Z⁸. Ni signed Mi, Piii signed Oiii.
Leaves LXII-LXIV misnumbered LXIII, XLVIII, LIIII.
Printer's mark on t.p. and at end; the artist's monogram appears on a woodcut dated 15l9, leaf CLXVI; historiated, foliated initials cut white on black as are some other blocks. Woodcuts total 119 with one repetition. Cesariano has provided ill. of gothic architecture, notably of the Milan cathedral, 3 full page ill. on leaves XIIII and XV.
Vitruvius text is surrounded by the commentary.
Includes index, and errata [errori, mispelled frrori], leaf [CLXXXIV].
Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 698
Fowler 395
Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 544
2000 anni di Vitruvio, 6
Krinsky, C.H. Cesare Cesariano.
In Italian.

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Treatises.
Renaissance architectural treatises.
Early works.

Added entries:

Cesariano, Cesare, 1475-1543.
Gallo, Agostino, 1499-1570.
Pirovano, Aloisio.
Giovio, Benedetto, 1471-1545.
Mauro, Bono, active 16th century.
Ponte, Gottardo da, active 1498-1548, printer.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 139864
Call No.: NA44.V848 (W222)
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 139865
Call No.: NA44.V848 (0006180)
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available