by GUARINI, Guarino
GUARINI, Guarini. ARCHITETTURA CIVILE. Two volumes. Farnborough, Hants: Gregg Press, 1964. Folios. Cloth. (viii), 308 pages; (iv pages, 79 pages of plates. A facsimile reprint by Gregg taken from the 1737 edition in the R.I.B.A. library. Volume I is text and volume II is plates. Guarini, the central fig in North Italian baroque architecture in the second half of the seventeenth century, was mainly active in Turin and Piedmont, but was also responsible fo buildings in Paris, Lisbon and elsewhere. The Architettura Civile contains engravings of all his principal buildings, some since destroyed, and is primarily valuable in assessing his architectural output. (truncated)