Editing Vitruvius (section)

===Rediscovery===
[[File:Battle of Thapsus.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Battle of Thapsus]] as depicted in an engraving after [[Andrea Palladio]]]]
[[File:Giovanni Paolo Panini - Interior of the Pantheon, Rome - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|200px|The interior of the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] (from an 18th-century painting by [[Giovanni Paolo Panini|Panini]]). Although built after Vitruvius' death, its excellent state of preservation makes it of great importance to those interested in Vitruvian architecture]]

Vitruvius' {{lang|la|[[De architectura]]}} was "rediscovered" in 1414 by the Florentine humanist [[Poggio Bracciolini]] in the [[Abbey library of Saint Gall|library of Saint Gall Abbey]]. [[Leon Battista Alberti]] (1404–1472) publicised it in his seminal treatise on architecture, {{lang|la|[[De re aedificatoria]]}} ({{circa|1450}}). The first known Latin printed edition was by Fra Giovanni Sulpitius in Rome, 1486.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palladiancenter.org/predecessors.html|title=CPSA Palladio's Literary Predecessors|website=www.palladiancenter.org|access-date=20 June 2017|archive-date=17 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217055656/http://www.palladiancenter.org/predecessors.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Translations followed in Italian ([[Cesare Cesariano]], 1521), French (Jean Martin, 1547<ref>[http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/ENSBA_LES1785.asp?param= Architectura – Les livres d'Architecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318141215/http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/ENSBA_LES1785.asp?param= |date=18 March 2011 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref>), English, German ([[:de:Walther Hermann Ryff|Walther H. Ryff]], 1543) and Spanish and several other languages. The original illustrations had been lost and the first illustrated edition was published in [[Venice]] in 1511 by [[Fra Giovanni Giocondo]], with [[woodcut]] illustrations based on descriptions in the text.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/CESR_2994.asp?param=|title=Architectura – Les livres d'Architecture|website=architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr|access-date=20 June 2017|archive-date=21 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721024238/http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/CESR_2994.asp?param=|url-status=dead}}</ref> Later in the 16th-century [[Andrea Palladio]] provided illustrations for [[Daniele Barbaro]]'s commentary on Vitruvius, published in Italian and Latin versions. The most famous illustration is probably Da Vinci's ''[[Vitruvian Man]]''.

The surviving ruins of Roman antiquity, the [[Roman Forum]], temples, theatres, triumphal arches and their reliefs and statues offered visual examples of the descriptions in the Vitruvian text. Printed and illustrated editions of {{lang|la|De Architectura}} inspired [[Renaissance]], [[Baroque]] and [[Neoclassical architecture]]. [[Filippo Brunelleschi]], for example, invented a new type of [[Hoist (device)|hoist]] to lift the large stones for the dome of the cathedral in [[Florence]] and was inspired by {{lang|la|De Architectura}} as well as surviving Roman monuments such as the [[Pantheon (Rome)|Pantheon]] and the [[Baths of Diocletian]].