Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione de architectura libri dece : traducti de Latino in vulgare affigurati: commentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti : per il quale facilmente potrai trovare la multitudine de li abstrusi & reconditi vocabuli a li soi loci & in epsa tabula con summo studio expositi & enucleati ad immensa utilitate de ciascuno studioso & benivolo di epsa opera
Cesare Cesariano's 1521 Italian edition of Vitruvius's ten books on architecture, translated into the vernacular and printed in Como by Gotardus de Ponte, was made for students and readers of classical building theory. Its woodcut diagrams show column orders, bases and capitals, plans, and proportion grids, drawn with lettered keys and measurement scales a designer could adapt for classical ornament and layout.
