Memorie
Degli Architetti Antichi E Moderni. 2
Volumes
Memoirs of Ancient and
Modern Architects. 2
Volumes
AUTHOR:
Milizia Francesco
EDITION: 1781, 3rd edition, stated
PUBLISHER: Dalla Stamperia Reale,
Parma, 1781
LANGUAGE: Italian
DESCRIPTION: Volumes 1 & 2
Elegant 18th century full
vellum binding, full parchment with gold titles Smooth spines with gold friezes and titles on
double two-tone gussets. Copper-engraved vignette on each title page. Volume 1,
has 361 pages Volume 2, has 415 pages White paper and well preserved. All pages are clean bright, no markings stain
or soil. The font has been increased in size( Large print) the text personally corrected by the author.
ABSTRACT: First Bodoni edition of this
work saw the light anonymously in 1768 due to papal censorship.
Francesco Milizia (1725-1798), a native
of Oria in the Brindisi area, dealt with scientific and literary works before
dedicating himself entirely to architecture, becoming a rigorous theorist of
neoclassicism.
According to Milizia, the beauty of architecture is not to be
found in fashion or in the authority of the architects of the past, nor in the
subjection of the most famous monuments,
rather in a positive, constant and unalterable principles, they derive
from nature itself. â
Bottari, as editor of the re-edition of the Lives of G.
Vasari (1759-61), constituted a natural reference for M.'s great biographical
project, even if the tendency towards a less verbose treatment extended to the
most important architects of all the time
He oriented him towards other sources and other authors, such
as the Venetian architect Tommaso Temanza. Extraordinary compendium skills
demonstrated by the novice M. not only with regard to Félibien's work,
concerning architects from antiquity to the 14th century, also with the Lives of Vasari, Baldinucci and
other more heterogeneous ones such as those of Vincenzo Scamozzi and Vincenzo
Vittoria, written specifically by Temanza, and those by Alessandro Pompei and
Girolamo Dal Pozzo, the only ones concerning living characters. (see Biographical
Dictionary of Italians, volume 74, 2010, entry edited by Tommaso Manfredi). See
also Iccu; Brooks 189; Cicognara (2324): â This is the best edition of this
work in which there are infinite excellent notions and very profound criticismâ
; De Lama, II, p. 19-20; Brunet, III, 1714; Graesse, IV, 523
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