Nuovo corso d'architettura civile : dedotta dai migliori monumenti greci, latini, e italiani del Cinquecento
Nuovo corso d'architettura civile is an 1835 Italian architectural treatise by Antonio Ginesi, published by Vincenzo Batelli e figli, drawing on Greek, Roman and sixteenth-century Italian monuments for students of civil building. Its plates are measured engraved drawings of classical capitals and entablature details, showing elevations, sections and plan views with fine hatching and labelled profiles. A designer can take from them the precise, legible logic of classical ornament, such as scroll volutes, acanthus leaves and egg-and-dart mouldings, shown at a scale that reveals construction.
