I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio
This is an Italian edition of Vitruvius's ten books on architecture, published in Venice in 1584 by Francesco de' Franceschi and edited by Daniele Barbaro, a Renaissance scholarly text for architects and humanist readers. The woodcut plates show classical building elements, a Corinthian entablature, a stepped section and floor plans of temple and forum complexes, drawn in crisp black line with clear labelled keys, useful to a designer for reading the logic of classical plan and column layout.
