Dispareri in materia d'architettura, e prospettiva di Martino Bassi architetto milanese

Features

Author:  Martino Bassi

Publisher:  Appresso Giuseppe Galeazzi Regio Stampatore

Place of printing:  Milan

Year of publication:  1771

Product Condition:
Copy in good condition. Fairly worn and loose half-leather binding with marbled corners and boards; faded gilt titles and blind fillets on the spine. Widespread abrasions to the edges, corners, and spine; the hinges in particular are damaged to the point of revealing the underlying binding. Irregular, browned edges; particularly darkened head edges. Collational formula: [π]4, A-Q4. Leaves in general well preserved with wide margins. Noteworthy: ownership stamp on the title page, which is rather browned; ownership stamp and pencil annotation on the following leaf; minimal pencil and red crayon annotation on B, B2, and N2; red crayon drawing in the lateral margin on Q; red crayon annotations in the lateral margin on M4; verso of P2 and recto of P3 dirty, with black traces and brown stains. Some outer corners of the leaves are minimally missing. Attached, folded and attached to the back of the volume, are 13 copperplate plates. Text in Italian.

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Pages:  (8),126,(2)

Format:  In eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  25
Width:  21

Description

The title page reads: "With the addition of the writings of the same (Martino Bassi) on the illustrious temple of San Lorenzo Maggiore in Milan. Published with some of his annotations by Francesco Bernardino Ferrari, engineer and collegiate architect of the same city." The volume is a work by Martino Bassi, an Italian architect of Milanese origins active during the Renaissance (c. 1542–1591), first published in Brescia in 1572. It collects a fictional correspondence between the architect Martino Bassi and some of the most famous architects of the time, including Palladio, Vignola, Vasari, and Bertani, in which the author criticizes the abilities of his colleague Pellegrino Tibaldi, then the architect in charge of the Fabbrica del Duomo in Milan. Tibaldi was then removed following protests in 1585. Among the 13 splendid plates folded in the end volume are a view, section and plan of the Basilica of San Lorenzo and a plan of the Milan Cathedral.

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