Main entry:

Andrea Palladio e l'architettura della battaglia. English.

Title & Author:

Andrea Palladio and the architecture of battle : with the unpublished edition of Polybius' Histories / edited by Guido Beltramini ; translation from the Italian, David Kerr.

Publication:

Venice : Marsilio, [2009]

Description:

330 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-325) and index.
Palladio and Polybius Histories / Guido Beltramini -- A note on the copy of the Dell'imprese de' Greci... of Polybius (293.g.20) in the British Library / Stephen Parkin -- Andrea Palladio. Texts and illustrations for Polybius' Histories -- The Renaissance tradition of the ancient art of war / Marco Formisano -- The organisation of warfare and the military milieu in the Republic of Venice / Luciano Pezzolo -- Honour and Virtù in a sixteenth-century aristocratic republic / Claudio Povolo -- Sebastiano Serlio and the Roman encampment / Francesco Paolo Fiore.

Summary:

Published here for the first time are Palladio's preparatory materials for an illustrated edition of Polybius' Histories alongside Palladio's material for his edition of Julius Caesar' Commentaries, (1575). Long thought to have been lost, his original Polybius has now been recomposed by drawing on three manuscript copies: the mock-up used by Palladio to plan the edition, rediscovered in the London British Library in 1977; a second copy found in Florence in 1986 and a third exemplar only very recently found in the New York Public Library. Here the reproductions of the 43 etchings for the Polybius have been accompanied by 42 etchings which Palladio dedicated to Caesar's deeds. This offers us a complete picture of his effort to reconstruct those excellent features of ancient warfare on which Palladio wished to base his own proposals for reforming the contemporary Venetian militia, as well as give a different point of view on the history of architecture.

ISBN:

9788831799867 (hbk.)
(hbk.)
978883179986
883179986X (hbk.)

Subject:

Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 Catalogs.
Polybius. Historiae Illustrations Catalogs.
Caesar, Julius. De bello Gallico Illustrations Catalogs.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.
Historiae (Polybius)
De bello Gallico (Caesar, Julius)
Works (Caesar, Julius)
War in art Catalogs.
Military art and science History Catalogs.
Guerre dans l'art Catalogues.
Art et science militaires Histoire Catalogues.
Military art and science.
War in art.
Venice (Italy) History, Military Catalogs.
Italy Venice.

Form/genre:

Military history.
History.
Catalogs.
Illustrated works.

Added entries:

Beltramini, Guido, editor.
Kerr, David, 1950- translator.
Beltramini, Guido. Palladio e le Storie di Polibio. English.
Centro internazionale di studi di architettura "Andrea Palladio" di Vicenza.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268507
Call No.: BIB 200352
Status: Available