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L'architettura
- Title
- L'architettura / di Leonbatista Alberti ; tradotta in lingua fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli gentil'huomo & accademico fiorentino ; con la aggiunta de disegni.
- Author
- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
- Publication
- In Firenze : Appresso Lorenzo Torrentino impressore ducale, MDL [1550]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. Ital. 1550 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 404, [24] pages : illustrations, portrait; 32 cm (fol.)
- Alternative Title
- Architettvra Di Leonbatista Alberti Tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli
- Architettura di Leonbatista Alberti
- Della architettura
- Della architettvra
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Woodcuts – Italy – 16th century.
- Note
- First published in Latin with title De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485). This is the second Italian translation and the first illustrated edition; a previously published translation by Pietro Lauro (Venice, 1546) has title I dieci libri dell'architettura.
- Signatures: a-z⁶ A-C⁶ D⁴ E² F-L⁶ M⁴ N-O⁶. Leaf O6 blank. Sig. E is composed of two leaves pasted together at fore-edge to form one folded sheet with large woodcut plan, paged [321], 322-323, [324] (the unnumbered pages blank; signed "e" on page numbered 323).
- Illustrations: numerous woodcuts, including historiated border on title page and author's portrait. Pictorial initials.
- Dedication by Bartoli to "Cosimo de Medici, duca di Firenze": pages 3-4.
- Indexed In (note)
- Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.)
- EDIT 16
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available online (Getty Research Institute copy) via HathiTrust.
- Provenance (note)
- With monogram label of Baron Horace de Landau and stamp on title page: Bibl. Gvst. C. Galletti, Flor.
- Binding (note)
- Binding, of vellum.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Ital. 1550
- OCLC
- 314434731
- Author
- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472, author.
- Title
- L'architettura / di Leonbatista Alberti ; tradotta in lingua fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli gentil'huomo & accademico fiorentino ; con la aggiunta de disegni.
- Publisher
- In Firenze : Appresso Lorenzo Torrentino impressore ducale, MDL [1550]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Indexed In:
- Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. 1, column 130EDIT 16 CNCE 723
- Additional Formats
- Also available online (Getty Research Institute copy) via HathiTrust.
- Binding
- Binding, of vellum. NN
- Provenance
- With monogram label of Baron Horace de Landau and stamp on title page: Bibl. Gvst. C. Galletti, Flor. NN
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- Italy Florence.
- Added Author
- Bartoli, Cosimo, 1503-1572, translator.Torrentino, Lorenzo, -1563, printer.Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574, dedicatee.Galletti, Gustavo Camillo, 1805-1868, former owner.Landau, Horace de, 1824-1903, former owner.
- Running Title
- Della architettura
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Ital. 1550