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Contributor(s): Vitruvius (Author), Schofield, Richard (Translator), Tavernor, Robert (Introduction by)

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 ISBN: 0141441682     ISBN-13: 9780141441689
Publisher: Penguin Group
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: December 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | History - Ancient & Classical
- Technology & Engineering | Civil - General
Dewey: 720
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Series: Penguin Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.6" L (0.75 lbs) 464 pages
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance greatly fuelled the revival of classicism during that and subsequent periods. Numerous architectural treatises were based in part or inspired by Vitruvius, beginning with Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (1485).

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
 
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