Kitao (Timothy Kaori)

(29 cm), xiv (2), 156 (2) pp., [16] leaves of plates. Publisher’s cloth (issued without dust jacket). - Kitao attempts to prove that for Bernini the colonnades did not describe an oval, but a circle. The first chapter summarizes the historical background of Bernini’s design and reconstructs the initial phases of the project (to 17 March 1657, when Bernini presented his oval plan to the Congregation of Cardinals overseeing the work); the other chapters continue the history, down to the construction of the Via della Conciliazione according to the design of 1938 by Marcello Piacentini and Attilio Spaccarelli. ¶ Faint waterstain in lower margin of four leaves; good, unmarked copy.