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Title: Gli oscuri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitruvio. Di latino volgare et alla chiara inteligentia tradotti.
Author:
Giovanni Battista Bertano (Mantua 1516–1576 Mantua)
Designer:
Frontispiece designed by Giovanni Battista Bertano (Mantua 1516–1576 Mantua)
Engraver:
Frontispiece engraved by Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua)
Publisher:
Venturino Ruffinello , Mantua
Author:
Analysis of treatise by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century BCE)
Published in: Mantua
Date: 1558
Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations and engraved frontispiece
Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 11/16 in. (39.4 x 26.1 x 1.7 cm)
Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938
Object Number: 38.27
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