Image: The Archtitecture of Leon Battista Alberti title page

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Description: English title page of the first edition (1715 [the title says 1726?!]) of Giacomo Leoni’s translation of Alberti’s De Re Aedificatoria (1452). The book is bilingual, with the Italian version being printed on the left and the English version printed on the right. The Italian title page actually comes a page before the English title page.
Title: The Archtitecture of Leon Battista Alberti title page
Credit: Della architettura di Leon Battista Alberti libri 10, on the website of the University Library of Heidelberg, Germany. The first five books of the first edition are accessible from here.
Author: Leon Battista Alberti; Giacomo Leoni
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