Vitruvius, Architettura, Perugia, 1536, modern crushed green morocco

VITRUVIUS POLLIO, MARCUS

Architettura, con il suo commento et figure [translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali]. Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536

folio (281 x 195mm.), woodcut title-page, woodcut illustrations (including a portrait of Bigazzini), woodcut initials, modern crushed green morocco with single gilt fillet border, G8 misbound after quire L, I4-6 and quire L⁸ remargined at foot, M5 and P7 repaired at foot

The portrait of Conte Giano Bigazzini shows him in military dress; he had worked as a condottiere for the Republic of Venice before retiring to his native Perugia and immersing himself in literary and artistic pursuits. His private press produced just two works: this edition of Vitruvius's first five books prepared by the artist Caporali, and a volume of poems by Lodovico Dolce. The printer may have been Luca Bini who was in Perugia at this time.

LITERATURE:

BAL RIBA 3536; Edit16 54111; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 546; Sander 7700

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