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Author: (Sanmicheli) Ronzani, Francesco & Luciolli, Gerolamo
Title: Le fabbriche civili ecclesiastiche e militari di Michele Sanmicheli.
Publication: Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli 1831.
Price: £1,250
Reference: 09224
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Large folio. (4) + 34 + 14 + 18pp, engraved portrait, frontispiece, (150) engraved plates. Contemporary boards, repaired for minor loss of surface towards upper margin of front cover (and strengthened at inside joints), and rebacked with recent parchment spine. A good copy in fresh, clean condition.
A major illustrated survey of the buildings attributed in the early nineteenth century to the sixteenth century architect Michele Sanmicheli (1484-1559), designer of town houses for the aristocracy both in his native city of Verona and in Venice, and also one of the most celebrated military architects of the period, designing fortifications for the Venetian Republic all over its far-flung territories in Italy and the Levant. The book was initially issued in parts between 1823 and 1830 at the expense of its authors, Francesco Ronzani, an architect in Verona, and Gerolamo Luciolli, who prepared the careful measured drawings on which the plates are based and then themselves engraved the plates , but most extant copies are in the present collected edition, a reissue of 1831 by the Venetian publisher Giuseppe Antonelli, and the book remains essential to the study of Sanmicheli's architectural achievement. The present copy includes the original printed list of subscribers, not traced by the compilers of the British Architectural Library Catalogue. BAL Cat 2840 (this edition).