GALLACINI, Teofilo (1564-1641) Trattato sopra gli errori degli architetti... - Venezia, Pasquali, 1767. (&:) VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) - Osservazioni che servono di continuazione al Trattato di Teofilo Gallacini... - Venezia, Pasquali, 1771.
2 works in 1 vol. Small folio. Engr. title in the first work, allegorical frontispiece in the second, and a great number of text illus. in both works, mostly full-p., all finely engr. by Visentini. XII, 81 pp.; VII, (1), 141 pp.; an excellent copy bound in contemp. vellum with gilt lettering on spine.
First edition of both works, usually found together. The revolutionary treatise by Gallacini written about 1621 and directed against what he conceived to be the excesses of contemporary architects such as Borromini, Maderna and others, remained unpublished for more than a century and a half. The illustrations of Baroque architectural details and Gallacini’s proposed modifications are engraved by Visentini whose commentary, which extends and develops Galacini’s work, was published four years later. Morazzoni 232 and 260. Cicognara 513-514. Schlosser 621 and 626. Berlin Kat. 2636 and 2640. Fowler 133 and 390.
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