A new Translation of Palladio.(Andrea Palladio - The Four Books on Architecture)(Book Review)

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Andrea Palladio - The Four Books on Architecture, translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield. MIT Press, S Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA 02142-1407, 2002. 436 pp., ill, index. Pbk. $US 24.95

Palladio lived from 1508 to 1580, and the first edition of his Four Books was published in Italian in 1570, when he was already a well-established architect, by Domenico de' Franceschi in Venice. Alberti's Ten Books were originally published in Latin, and only later translated into Italian; however, times were changing, and only Palladio's Book I was ...

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