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M. VITRUVIUS POLLIO
ON
ARCHITECTURE
TEN BOOKS
With the complete Notes, Corrections, & Observations
of GUILLAUME PHILANDRIER;
excerpts from DANIELE BARBARO, and
insertions throughout by CLAUDE DE SAUMAISE.
Prefixed are
ELEMENTS
OF ARCHITECTURE
Collected by the Illustrious Gentleman
SIR HENRY WOTTON, English Knight.
Added are
THE VITRUVIAN LEXICON
of BERNARDINO BALDI OF URBINO, Abbot of Guastalla;
And by the same
THE VITRUVIAN UNEQUAL SCAMILLI.
ON PAINTING
THREE BOOKS
of LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI.
ON SCULPTURE
EXCERPTS
From the Dialogue of POMPONIO GAURICO of Naples.
LOUIS DEMONTJOS
COMMENTARY
ON SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.
With various most copious Indexes.
ALL GATHERED, ARRANGED, & ILLUSTRATED INTO ONE
BY
JOHANNES DE LAET OF ANTWERP.