TY - BOOK AU - Palladio Andrea TI - The Four Books On Architecture: : SN - 9780262661331 U1 - 720.109031 PY - 1997/// CY - London. PB - Mit Press KW - Architecture N1 - Bib and Ref N2 - The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabulary of architectural forms embodying perfection and beauty. Of even greater significance than Palladio's buildings is his treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books On Architecture), the most successful architectural treatise of the Renaissance and one of the two or three most important books in the literature of architecture. First published in Italian in 1570, it has been translated into every major Western language ER -