Palatia procerum Romanȩ vrbis
A late sixteenth-century Roman engraved book of palace facades, published in Rome in 1589 by Girolamo Francini and likely aimed at architects, patrons and collectors. Its plates show the elevations of noble Roman palaces as flat, ruled line drawings of storeys, windows, doorways and rusticated or colonnaded fronts, which a designer could use for classical facade rhythm, window spacing and stone-block patterns.
