Dell’architettura libri dieci di M. Vitruvio Pollione tradotti e commentati dal Marchese Berabdo Galiani

Livorno: Presso gli Editori, 1832. With 28 etched plates of architectural plans and elements, each with an accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Later sheep-backed boards (spine separated from book block, some sheets loose). Later edition of Galiani’s renowned vernacular recension of Vitruvius’ landmark architectural treatise. Replete with footnotes and prefatory text, this is considered the finest Italian translation. The delicate illustrations show designs for columns, theaters, temples, roofs, aqueducts, galleries, and more.

Galiani (1724-1774) was an architectural historian and archaeologist. This translation was his most famous scholastic contribution.