Contact_32 - Archived Posted on 11/26/201908/11/2020 The Book “Architettura, con il suo commento et figure”, from the Italien Painter and Architect Giovan Battista Caporali. is basically a commentary on the first five of the ten books of Vitruvius. This also explains the general organization e.g. five separate books / sections for the five books, with the same titles: 1 Landscape architecture. 2 Constuction materials.3 Temples part 1.4 Temples part 2.5 Public places.However, the number of chapters per book varies a lot (1/7, 2/10, 3/3, 4/8, 5/11). The book starts with a beautiful woodcut which shows the basic topics. Besides the name of the book and author, you can find a female figure, which symbolizes the Architecture, as well as the main topics: mathematics, music, literature and painting. Furthermore there is a portrait of the author and his coat of arms.The size of the book is around the following: Height 350mm, breadth 270mm and width 40mm. This probably refers to the traditional book-size called Quarto.In total the book has 131 Pages of which around one third have illustrations. Attachments IMG_5577 (91 MB)