supposedly at the suggestion of the Earl of Burlington, for the purpose of assisting with the publication of this work. The
plates for the work were all redrawn by Leoni, and the first edition, here described, published in 1715. The second edition
was published in 1721 and the third in 1742, see the previous entry. He remained in England the rest of his life, and designed
many of the stately homes.
Nicolas Du Bois was responsible for the translation from the original Italian into both the English and French languages.
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Il Settimo libre d’Architettura del Serglio.
Ital.
Lat.
}
Regola delle cinque ordine d’Architettura del Vignola.
}
fol.
Les cinq Ordres d’Architecture de Scamozzi par Daviler.
}
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. 25, as above.
SERLIO,
Sebastiano.
Sebastiani Serlii Bononiensis Architectvrae Liber Septimvs. In qvo mvlta explicantvr, qvæ Architecto Variis locis possunt occurrere, tum ob
inusitatam situs rationem, tum si quando instaurare, siue restituere ædes, aut aliquid pridem factum indicatur. Ad finem adiuncta
sunt sex palatia, ichnographia & orthographia variis rationibus descripta, quæ ruri à magno quopi(
-a) Principe extrui possint. Eodem autore.
Italicè &
Latinè. Il settimo libro l’Achitettura
[
sic
--
Ed.
] di Sebastiano Serglio Bolognese . . . Ex Mvsæo Iac. de Strada S.C.M. Antiqvarii, Civis Romani. Cum S.C.M. Priuilegio: & Regis Galliarum.
Francovfrti
[
sic
--
Ed.
] ad Moenvm: Ex officina typographica
Andreæ Wecheli,
m. d. lxxv.
[1575.]
Folio. 128 leaves,
Wechel’s woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut arms of D. Gvlielmo
Vrsino a Rosenberg on the first leaf of the dedication, full-page woodcut
illustrations,
Wechel’s large device on the verso of the last leaf, otherwise blank,
Latin and
Italian text printed in parallel columns.
This edition not in Brunet.
Graesse VI, 370.
Ebert 21015.
Kimball, page 100.
Sebastiano Serlio, 1475-1552, a native of Bologna, was employed by Francis I of France at Fontainebleau, and was the first to publish books
on the ancient edifices of Italy. His first book on architecture was published in 1545.
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VIGNOLA,
Giacomo Barozzio,
called.
Regola deli Cinque Ordini d’Architettvra di J. Barozzi. Con la nuova Aggionta di M. A. Buonaroti . . . t’
Amstelredam,
1619.
Folio. Text in
Italian and
German, 42 plates. No copy of this edition was available for examination.
Graesse VI, 314.
Kimball, page 100.
Giacomo Barozzio, 1507-1573, was born in Vignola, Italy, and took his name from his birthplace. He became the architect of St. Peter’s, Rome,
after the death of Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1564, and was responsible for the design of many buildings in various cities
in Italy, and was consulted on the designs for the Escorial in Spain. The first edition of his
Regola delli Cinqve Ordini d’Architettvra was published in 1563 and has frequently been reprinted and translated into other languages.
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