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A 1521 Italian language edition of De architectura, translated and illustrated by Cesare Cesariano Manuscript of Vitruvius; parchment dating from about 1390. De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus ...
The essay was published in book form in May 1849 and is structured with eight chapters; an introduction and one chapter for each of the seven 'Lamps', [2] which represent the demands that good architecture must meet, expressed as directions in which the association of ideas may take the observer: [3]
Vitruvius (/ v ɪ ˈ t r uː v i ə s / vi-TROO-vee-əs, Latin: [wɪˈtruːwi.ʊs]; c. 80 –70 BC – after c. 15 BC) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura. [1]
Writing for Locus, Russell Letson stated that "the occasionally comic episodic-adventure feeling of the first two volumes has shifted to something darker and more desperate" for the final book of the trilogy. Lesson praised the wide scope of the novel, stating that the "combination of space operatics, horrors nameless and all-too-physical ...
Later Serlio's book was in the libraries of Sir Christopher Wren and John Wood, the Elder the architect and entrepreneur who laid out Bath. Inigo Jones possessed Italian editions, which he annotated. [14] Books III & IV were published in Spanish in 1552 in Toledo by Juan de Ayala with the same illustrations as the original Italian editions.
The novel was reprinted in the Modern Library series in 1931. [5] It was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944. [6] It was also included on Time 's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 [7] and Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century [8] and was chosen by the Western Writers of America to be the 7th ...
Compass Point Books – publishes nonfiction with a focus on topics such as history, science, biography and careers, grades 5-12. Picture Window Books – publishes fiction and nonfiction easy readers, picture books and chapter books, grades preK-4. Stone Arch Books – publishes fiction for grades K–9. [14]
Renegades is a science fiction novel by American author Marissa Meyer and the first book in the Renegades trilogy. [1] It was first published in the United States on November 7, 2017, and was succeeded by Arch Enemies, by Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group.