To commemorate it being World Book Day I will be posting up a blog presenting pictures from an old and rare book written by Italian Architect Andrea Palladio called ‘I QVATTRO LIBRE DELL’ ARCHITETTURA’ (The Four Books of Architecture), which was published in 1570.
The original copies are written in Italian and Latin, however there are English translations of this book which where published in 1716 in Britain. This book has remarkable artwork with a detailed front page to the book (the first picture below) and clear illustrations of buildings and the inner structure of such complicated and exquisite architecture.
It is easy to tell that this book was very informative for its time with such detail to its illustrations and its various translations over the years, making this book that much more fascinating. (The copy available to us is written in Latin by the way)
