BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

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The Della architettura… libri dieci (1590-1) which had a great editorial success was reprinted right away with a distinct frontispiece and it was augmented with an appendix on the solar clocks of Fra Bernardino Stramegioli. The last eight lines of the word to the reader were replaced by the justification of the reprint and an appendix on clocks (“Hora vedendo l’aura…, ci siamo risolti tornarli a ristampare con l’aggiunta del modo di fabricar la bilancia posta nel decimo a carte 139. […], & una pratica facilissima di fabricar gl’Orologi Solari […], & un Orologio da acqua cavato da Orontio Fineo, con le loro figure. […]. The errata of the first edition were not taken into account with the exception of only one correction (p. 91) ; the text was entirely recomposed. A few plates were replaced by others done by Rusconi (tree, p. 41, galley, p. 139) or borrowed like the ones of the caryatids from Barbaro’s Vitruve p. 4). In 1660 the book in this second version  was reprinted in Venice by Francesco Nicolini.

Frédérique Lemerle (CNRS, CESR, Tours) – 2023

A. Bedon, “Il ‘Vitruvio’ di Giovan Antonio Rusconi”, Ricerche di Storia dell’Arte, 19, 1983, pp. 84-90.

A. Bedon, “Giovan Antonio Rusconi : illustratore di Vitruvio, artista, ingegnere, architetto”, in Della Architettura di Gio. Antonio Rusconi, fac-simile (CISA, Vicence), Verona/Vicenza, Colpo di fulmine Edizioni/CISA, 1996, pp. IX-XXI.

A. Bedon, “L’Architettura di Giovan Antonio Rusconi”, in S. Deswarte-Rosa (ed.), Sebastiano Serlio à Lyon, Architecture et imprimerie, Lyon, Mémoire Active, 2004, pp. 403-405.

S. Bongi, Annali di Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari da Trino di Monferrato. Stampatore a Venezia, Rome, Presso il principali librai, 1890-1895, I, p. 397 ; II, p.p 445-446 (ristampa anastatica : Rome, Bibliopola Vivarelli & Gullà, 1963)

F. Lemerle, “Giovanni Antonio Rusconi, illustrateur du Discours historial de l’antique et illustre cité de Nismes ?”, Ausonius, forthcoming.