I dieci libri di architettura
An 1784 Italian edition of Alberti's architectural treatise, I dieci libri di architettura, in the Italian translation by Cosimo Bartoli, printed in Italy for a readership of architects and builders. The pictures are crisp engraved plates and small woodcut vignettes: a tiered tower elevation, a foliate arch, a decorative cartouche with instruments and a book, and an ornamental initial D showing classical buildings, which together offer a designer clean architectural line drawings and classical ornament motifs.
