I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura
Milan: Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1980. 1st Edition Thus. Thick quarto, publisher's brick cloth, spine gilt and stamped in black, top edge stained peach, original attached yellow silk ribbon bookmark, original illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of Italian art historian Licisco Magagnato’s reprint of tphe Renaissance architect’s famous treatise. Born as Andrea di Pietro della Gondola in the early 16th century, Palladio, originally a stonemason, came to architecture while rebuilding a villa for Count Gian Giorgio Trissino. The Humanist poet and scholar educated him in the principles of Roman architect and engineer Vitruivus and gave him his nom de guerre. From 1546 to his death in 1580, Palladio constructed several villas and palaces in and around Venice including Villa Barbaro, Villa Capra "La Rotonda," Basilica Palladiana, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Il Redentore, and Teatro Olimpico. In 1570 he published his landmark treatise The Four Books of Architecture, which details building materials, techniques, private homes, villas, streets, bridges, piazzas, and basilicas, and Roman temples. This 1980 reprint, considered the first modern edition of the text, contains all four volumes with a new layout and plates, alongside an introduction by Magagnato and extensive notes by Italian art historian Paola Marini. Illustrated in black-and-white; with an index of names and a general index. Text in Italian. Issued as volume six in the publisher's Trattati di Architettura series. Unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and edgewear. Near fine. Item #9603
$200.00