Main entry:

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.

Title & Author:

Regole generali di architettura di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese sopra le cinque maniere de gliedifici, cioe, thoscano, dorico, ionico, corinthio, e composito : con gli essempi de l'antiquita, che per la maggior parte concordano con la dottrina di Vitruuio.

Edition:

Con noue additioni, & castigationi, dal medesimo autore in questa terza editione fatte, come ne la seguente carta è notato.

Publication:

In Venetia : Per Pietro de Nicolini da Sabbio, ad instantia di Marchione Sessa, MDLI [1551]

Description:

LXXVI leaves : illustrations (woodcuts), plans ; 36 cm (folio)

Notes:
Fourth Italian ed.
Printer's and publisher's names and imprint date from colophon, which reads: "In Vinegia per Pietro de Nicolini da Sabbio. Ad instantia di Marchione Sessa, MDLI." and publisher's names and imprint date from colophon.
Signatures: 2A-2T⁴ [$2 signed ( -2A1)].
Leaf V misnumbered "VII"; leaf LIII misnumbered "LVI."
Woodcuts: elaborate architectural title page featuring pillars having the shape of a male and female mythological figure, animal heads, three-dimensional shapes, all bordered with clusters of grapes, figs, leaves, and other fruits; large Sessa device on verso of last leaf, featuring his cat-and-mouse, with motto "Dissimilium in fida sotietas;" profusely illustrated with woodcut drawings of facades, floor plans, and architectural elements such as arches, niches, pillars, moldings, pediments, and ornaments, many of which are also shown in cross-section.
Title-page printed in red and black; text printed in italic type.
Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 623.
Fowler architectural collection of the Johns Hopkins University, 319
Dinsmoor, W.B. "Literary remains of Sebastiano Serlio." Art bulletin 24 (1942): 55-91, 115-154, page 68, note 66
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, S-974
Riccardi, P. Biblioteca matematica italiana dalla origine della stampa ai primi anni del secolo XIX, I(1):440, no. 5(1)
EDIT 16, CNCE 32814
Cicognara, 664-3

Summary:

Fourth book in a series of seven vernacular Renaissance architectural treatises by Sebastiano Serlio. Serlio's great contribution was that his books were the first to present architectural theory in the form of a professional manual, specifically geared to needs of architectus, builders, and craftsmen. He was also one of the first to use high-quality illustrations to explain his text.

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Orders Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Roman Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture Ordres Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture romaine Ouvrages avant 1800.
Antiquities.
Architecture.
Architecture Orders.
Architecture, Roman.
Rome Antiquities Early works to 1800.
Rome Antiquités Ouvrages avant 1800.
Rome (Empire)
Architectural orders.
Architectural theory.
Architectural Details.

Form/genre:

Treatises.
Woodcuts.
Early works.

Added entries:

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1546-1600, publisher.
Nicolini da Sabbio, Pietro, printer.

Regole generali di architettvra di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese
Libro quarto

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 211806
Call No.: NA44.S485.A74 1560
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 211751
Call No.: NA44.S485.A74 1551
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available