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VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus (70-23 BC). Architettura. Translated by G.B. Caporali (1475-1555). Perugia: Conte Iano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536.
2° (275 x 207mm). Roman type, some Greek. Woodcut architectural title-page with the portrait and coat of arms of Giovanni Battista Caporali in the border, woodcut portrait of Giano Bigazzini the dedicatee opening dedication, 81 woodcuts including seven full-page, one large woodcut initial with a perspective architectural view, other woodcut initials from 2 sets (Very slight worming in first two leaves, one track repaired, occasional marginal waterstains, occasional browning and spotting, neat tear repaired in f.89, A2 on guard.) Modern binding reusing old vellum over thin pasteboard; vellum-backed box. Provenance: Peruzzi family, Provence (armorial booklabel).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF CAPORALI'S ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF, the first five books of Vitruvius. Based on the Como 1521 edition, the work was printed at Bigazzini's private press in Perugia with the collaboration of Caporali himself, architect and painter, Vittorio Muzio, the typesetter, and Jean de Né, the typographer. Lavishly illustrated, Vitruvius is the only Roman work on classical architecture inspired by Greek architecture that has survived, therefore the fundamental architectural textbook for centuries. BL STC Italian 735; Graesse VI 379; Cicognara 706; Brunet V 1330; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 546; Sander III 7700.
2° (275 x 207mm). Roman type, some Greek. Woodcut architectural title-page with the portrait and coat of arms of Giovanni Battista Caporali in the border, woodcut portrait of Giano Bigazzini the dedicatee opening dedication, 81 woodcuts including seven full-page, one large woodcut initial with a perspective architectural view, other woodcut initials from 2 sets (Very slight worming in first two leaves, one track repaired, occasional marginal waterstains, occasional browning and spotting, neat tear repaired in f.89, A2 on guard.) Modern binding reusing old vellum over thin pasteboard; vellum-backed box. Provenance: Peruzzi family, Provence (armorial booklabel).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF CAPORALI'S ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF, the first five books of Vitruvius. Based on the Como 1521 edition, the work was printed at Bigazzini's private press in Perugia with the collaboration of Caporali himself, architect and painter, Vittorio Muzio, the typesetter, and Jean de Né, the typographer. Lavishly illustrated, Vitruvius is the only Roman work on classical architecture inspired by Greek architecture that has survived, therefore the fundamental architectural textbook for centuries. BL STC Italian 735; Graesse VI 379; Cicognara 706; Brunet V 1330; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 546; Sander III 7700.
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