On the art of building in ten books /
De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first moderntreatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history ofarchitecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original,exceptionally eloquent Latin t...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c1988
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