BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE



Author(s)

Alberti, Leon Battista
Bartoli, Cosimo
Title L’architettura...
Imprint Monte Regale [Mondovi], L. Torrentino, 1565
Localisation
Los Angeles, Getty Research Library, NA 2515. A33i 1565 b
Subject Architecture
Transcribed version of the text

French

     In August, 1565, in Monte Regale (Mondovi) , a few months after Francesco De Franceschi, Leonardo Torrentino republished the illustrated translation of Alberti that his father Lorenzo had published in Florence in 1550. He reused the original woodcuts and saved on paper by using smaller print. In order to stand out from his Venitian colleague he added the Italian translation of the De pictura by Lodovico Domenichi which had first appeared in Venice in 1547 at the presses of Giolito de Ferrari. This is the only addition, despite the indication in the title (“Et altri diversi trattati del medismo auttore”).

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2013

 

Critical bibliography

M. Carpo, L’architettura dell’età della stampa : oralità, scrittura, libro stampato e riproduzione meccanica dell’immagine nella storia delle teorie architettoniche, Milan, Jaca Book, 1998.

D. Moreni, Annali della tipografia fiorentina di Lorenzo Torrentino, impressore ducale, Florence, Daddi, 1819 ; facsimile (ed. M. Martelli), Florence, Le Lettere, 1989, p. 117.

J. Rykwert & A. Engel, Leon Battista Alberti, Milan, Olivetti/Electa, 1994, pp. 467-468.