Vagnetti (Luigi), 1915-1980; Marcucci (Laura), born 1949; Bartoli (Maria Teresa), born 1947
2000 anni di Vitruvio (Studi e Documenti di Architettura, 8)
Florence, Edizione della Cattedra di Composizione Architettonica / Facoltà di Architettura di Firenze, 1978
(22 cm), 207 pp., 76 text illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A study of the impact of Vitruvius’s book on Western architecture, centred on a chronological (1486-1976) and critical register of printed Vitruvius editions, translations, commentaries, compendiums, and epitomes (166 distinct editions, not counting reissues). Includes the essay by Laura Marcucci, “Giovanni Sulpicio e la prima edizione del De Architectura di Vitruvio (pp.185-196). “A new vade mecum for Vitruvian studies” (from a review by Charles Davis, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume 39, October 1980, pp.251-253). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.