VITRUVIO, Marco Pollione (c.80-70 B.C.- c.15 B.C.) - De architectura libri dece. Tradotto da Cesare Cesariano (c.1478-1543). Commento di Cesariano, Benedetto Giovio e Massimo Bono Mauro. Como: Gottardo da Ponte, 1521. 

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Los 241 | VITRUVIO, Marco Pollione (c.80-70 B.C.- c.15 B.C.) - De architectura libri dece. Tradotto da Cesare Cesariano (c.1478-1543). Commento di Cesariano, Benedetto Giovio e Massimo Bono Mauro. Como: Gottardo da Ponte, 1521. 
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VITRUVIO, Marco Pollione (c.80-70 B.C.- c.15 B.C.) - De architectura libri dece. Tradotto da Cesare Cesariano (c.1478-1543). Commento di Cesariano, Benedetto Giovio e Massimo Bono Mauro. Como: Gottardo da Ponte, 1521.

A crisp copy with wide margins of the first vernacular translation of Vitruvius and "the most beautiful of all early editions". The Como Vitruvius is considered as one of the finest illustrated books of the Italian Renaissance and the present copy is in its first version with "tuta lopera" on the errata.

The fine woodcuts, clearly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, are largely the work of Cesariano himself, and the three plates showing plans and elevations of Milanese Duomo are considered 'the earliest authentic representations of Gothic architecture in a printed book' (Fowler). Cesariano’s important translation from Latin into Italian - its first printing in any vernacular language - was completed by Govio and Bono Mauro. Gottardo da Ponte was brought specially to Como to print this edition with the financial backing of Augustino Gallo and Aloisio Pirovano and in a print-run of 1300 copies. It was the only book printed by the Gotardo da Ponte press in Como, and the fourth ever published in this city.

The book also refers to the work of Bramante in Lombardy, the city of Como, the Villa Pliniana, the River Latte (which Leonardo studied for a long time) and other Milanese buildings and monuments, as well as artists, architects, writers and illustrious characters of the city and of the time. The Visconti Library in Pavia and the clock and tower of Venice are also mentioned. Finally, the Camera obscura is also dealt with although the invention has until now been attributed to G.B. Della Porta Napolitano who published it only in 1589 in his "Natural Magic"; Leonardo da Vinci, before Cesariano, described the Camera obscura in his manuscripts, but the news remained buried for a long time in his writings (Ferderico Frigerio. Il "Vitruvio" del Cesariano. Como, 1934, p. 34).

Folio (411 x 280mm). Large printer's device on title, woodcut initials, numerous full-page or smaller format woodcut illustrations, many fine initials on a black background, with the errata in the first version entitled "Tabula de li errori in tuta lopera vitruviana" (some wormholes mostly in the lower margin and occasionally - towards the end of the work - in the top margin, few and sporadic tiny holes in the text at beginning, some likely cleaning interventions and few neat restorations, light sporadic staining, title with minimal reinforcement in the inner margin and small restoration in the center that touches the printer's device). Modern half vellum, morocco spine label with gilt title and decorations on spine. Provenance: Mediolanum antiquarian bookshop (bookseller's ticket).
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