BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

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     In 1608 Denise Cavellat published Sagredo's final work.  The title was modernized and for the first time carried the name of the Spanish author.  The book was paginated from then on (111 pages) and enlarged with a table of contents ("Table des chapitres").  The text was recomposed but the woodcuts are identical to those of the 1555 edition, which had been divided up between Gilles Gourbin and Guillaulme Cavellat, Denise's father.  The spelling or certain figures of speech were brought up to date.  Nevertheless a few misprints remain: ("autheurs" instead of "hauteurs").  In the 17^th century the treatise remained relevant, a manual as handy for practicians as for those keen on architecture, because it was still in the library of both François Mansart, and of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2011

Critical bibliography

F. Lemerle, « La version française des Medidas del Romano », F. Marías & F. Pereda (ed.), Medidas del Romano, Diego de Sagredo, Toledo. 1526, Toledo, Pareja, 2000, 2, pp. 93-106.

F. Lemerle, "Passer les Pyrénées : la fortune de la traduction anonymes des Medidas del Romano de Diego de Sagredo (Tolède, 1526)", communication at the International conference: Passeurs de textes II : gens du livre et de lettres à la Renaissance, CESR, Tours, june 27-july 1 2011, forthcoming, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014.

F. Marías, « El lugar de los Sagredos en la tratadística del Renacimiento », M. del Mar Lozano Bartolozzi & F. M. Sánchez Lomba (ed.), Libros con arte, arte con libros, Junta de Extremadura, Cáceres, 2007, pp. 101-121.

F. Marías & A. Bustamante (ed.), Diego de Sagredo, Medidas del Romano (Toledo, 1549), Madrid, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, 1986.

F. Marías & F. Pereda (ed.), Medidas del Romano, Diego de Sagredo, Toledo. 1526, Toledo, Pareja, 2000. 2 vol.

Y. Pauwels, "François Mansart et la culture architecturale du XVI^e siècle", Les Cahiers de Maisons, 27-28, 1999, pp. 52-57.

Y. Pauwels, "La fortune du Sagredo français en France et en Flandres aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles", F. Marías & F. Pereda (ed.), Medidas del Romano, Diego de Sagredo, Toledo. 1526, Toledo, Pareja, 2000, 2, pp. 107-116.