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113. Serlio, Sebastiano.

IL SETTIMO LI-/BRO D'ARCHITETTV-/RA DI SEBASTIANO
SERGLIO / BOLOGNESE. NEL QVAL SI / TRATTA DI MOLTI
ACCIDENTI, / che possono occorrer' al Architetto, in diuersi luoghi, &
istrane for-/me de siti, è nelle restauramenti, o restitutioni di case, è come
/ habiamo à far, per siruicij de gli altri edifici è simil' / cose, come nella
sequente pagina si lege. / Nel fine visono aggiunti sei palazzi, con le sue
piante è fazzate, in diuersi modi fat-/te, per fabricar in villa per gran
Prencipi. Del sudetto autore, / Italiano è Latino. / Sebastiani Serlij

Plate CXXI. From No. 112. Title page.

Plate CXXII. From No. 112. "Il Tempio di Giove Tonante" (Pl. 2).

Bononiensis Architecturae liber septimus. / IN QVO MVLTA EXPLICANTVR,
QVAE ARCHITE-/cto variis locis possunt occurrere,
tum ob inusitatam situs rationem, tum si quando instau-/rare siue restituere
aedes, aut aliquid pridem factum in opus adbibere, aut caetera /
huiusmodi facere necesse fuerit: prout proxima pagina indicatur. / Ad
finem adiuncta sunt sex palatica, ichnographia & orthographia variis rationibus
descripta, quae / ruri à magno quopiam Principe extrui possint.
Eodem autore. / Italicè & Latinè. / Ex. Musaeo Iac. de Strada S. C.
M. Antiqvarii, Civis Romani. / Cum. S. C. M. Priuilegio: & Regis Galliarum.
/ Francofvrti Ad Moenvm, / Ex officina typographica Andreae
Wecheli. / M. D. LXXV.

Folio. Title page (1 unnumbered p.); synopsis (1 unnumbered p.);
dedication (3 unnumbered pp.); notes to readers (5 unnumbered pp.);
licenses (1 leaf); text, with 120 full-page woodcut plates inserted (1243).

Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1552 or 1554) worked first as a painter in perspective.
He then studied with Peruzzi in Rome and thereafter worked
as an architect. He died at Fontainebleau, where he had worked for some
time.

His Trattato di architettura was published piecemeal, in haphazard
order, and in various locations. Book IV was first with a Venice, 1537
edition; it was followed by Book III, 1540; Books I and II, 1545; Book V,
1547; Book VI, 1551; and Book VII, 1575 in Frankfurt.

Book VII contains illustrations of villas, palaces, fireplaces, city
gates, window frames (see Plate CXXIII) and other details, multishaped
plans, and various mannerist compositions. It should be noted
that this book is one of the earliest of any of the architectural works in
Jefferson's library.

Kimball (p. 100) says the Settimo Libro entered Jefferson's library
between 1785 and 1789. Sowerby notes that it was bound with a
Scamozzi (No. 111a) and a Vignola (No. 123b). Jefferson sold his copy
to Congress. He did not order it for the University. The library's present
copy is a recent acquisition, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation.

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Plate CXXIII. From No. 113. "Delle finistre & usci" (p. 77).