De re aedificatoria

by Leon Battista Alberti

1485 470 pages eng

Building Architecture Early works to 1800

De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first moderntreatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history ofarchitecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original,exceptionally eloquent Latin t…

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