Author: PALLADIO (Andrea):
Title: Le Terme dei Romani diegnate da Andrea Palladio e Ripubblicate con La Giunta di Alcune Osservazioni da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi giusta l'esemplare de Lord Conte di Burlington Impress in Londra l'Anno 1732
Description: In Vicenza Per Giovanni Rossi. 1797. Small 4to, 237 x 178 mms., pp. 55, engraved frontispiece, 17 folding engraved plates, 8 full-page engraved plates, contemporary marbled boards, paper spine of marbled paper; spine defective with cords exposed, and covers holding on for dear life. The title-page refers to the publication in 1730 of Fabriche Antiche disegnate da Andrea Palladion Vicentinoi by Richard Boyle, Third Earl of Burlington and Fourth Earl of Cork (1694 - 1753), the architect, collector, and patron of the arts. Alexander Pope responded with his epistle "Of Taste: An Epistle to the Earl of Burlington" in 1731, the fourth of the so-called Moral Essays, or Epistles to Several Persons. The plates here, of the plans and elevations of the Roman Baths, were engraved by Antonio Mugnoni after drawings by Palladio.

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