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Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Illustrations 11 Editorial Note 17 Acknowledgements 19 Abbreviations 23 Introduction 27 Chapter One Pliny the Elder and His Place in Antique and Mediaeval Writings on Architecture 37 Plates 51 Part I Pliny the Elder and Antiquarian Studies of the Roman Ruins 59 Chapter Two Initial Explorations: Petrarch, the Mirabilia urbis Romae, and Flavio Biondo 61 Chapter Three The Manuscript Hunter and the Librarian: Poggio Bracciolini and Giovanni Tortelli 80 Chapter Four A New System: Pomponio Leto and His School 89 Chapter Five Emerging Doubts 110 Part II Pliny the Elder and Architectural Writings 125 Chapter Six Pliny and Leon Battista Alberti: Two “Architectural Histories” 127 Chapter Seven Pliny, Filarete, and the Ideal Patron of Architecture 144 Chapter Eight “Aldus and His Dream Book”: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 162 Chapter Nine A More Down-to-Earth Pliny 179 Chapter Ten Mixing the Traditions: The Curious Case of Cesare Cesariano 204 Chapter Eleven Developments in the Veneto: The Vitruvian Commentaries of Daniele Barbaro and I quattro libri by Andrea Palladio 229 Part III Pliny the Elder, Architectur

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Peter Fane-Saunders

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