Bassi (Martino) Dispareri in Materia d'Architettura, et Perspettiva, first edition, title with charming woodcut head-piece of frolicking putti and printer's device (repeated on verso of final leaf), 12 engraved plates, title browned and with faint stamp to verso, text lightly foxed, 18th century calf-backed boards, a few wormholes to spine, [Adams B371; BAL 219; Berlin Kat. 2600; EDIT 16 CNCE 4601; Fowler 40; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 46], 8vo, Brescia, [Vincenzo da Sabio for] Francesco & Pie. Maria Marchetti, 1572.
⁂ One of the very earliest public debates about the merits of a particular architectural scheme, namely the restoration of Milan cathedral’s baptistery, choir and crypt by Pellegrino Tibaldi, and for the proposed placing of a sculptured relief of the Annunciation above the cathedral’s north entrance.
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