Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume 1: Books I-V of "Tutte l`opere d`architettura et prospetiva"

Sebastiano Serlio (1475—1554) was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century; despite this, his writings have been virtually inaccessible until now. This translation of Serlio’s five—volume treatise—he died before publishing two further volumes—replaces the only other English version, one that was produced in 1611 from an inaccurate Dutch translation of the Italian original. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, working directly from Serlio’s own corrected edition...