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SERLIO, Sebastiano. Regole generali di architettura...sopra le cinque maniere de gli edifici, cioe, thoscano, dorico, ionico, corinthio, e composito... . Venice: Francesco Marcolini 1544. 2°. Title in red and black within a woodcut architectural border, numerous woodcuts in the text, mostly large or full-page. (E2&3 probably from a smaller copy and with marginal extensions, repaired tear in M3, some staining and soiling.) Modern wrappers. Third Italian edition of Serlio's Book IV, but, unlike previous editions, with a dedication to Alvise Cornaro in which Marcolini extols Cornaro for the excellent buildings that he has commissioned including the Casa Cornara at Padua with its wonderful garden, the villas at Codevigo and Campagna and, finally, a palace fit for a prince, a pope, or an emperor, at Luvignano. Casali 69 "Rara"; Fowler p. 254; Cicognara 665.