ORSINI, Baldassarre
Perugia, Baduel, 1801
In 8vo, two parts in a volume; pp. (8), 198;(4), 164, (4), and two folded plates.Half calf binding with corners, tile and golden title on back.
Original edition
A fine arts teacher and director of the “Accademia del disegno” in Perugia, Baldassarre Orsini (1732-1810), who was both a painter and an architect, writes a very useful dictionary for Architecture students, who could easily and clearly find out, in each single entry, history and technical features. He adds to this a specific dictionnary of vitruvian terms, to simplify the study of the still fundamental text, the “codex of master of architects”.
Only one copy in Iccu (but the only first volume).
