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''Cinque Ordine'' in Googlebooks

Li cinque ordini dell' architettura civile di Michel Sanmicheli : rilevati dalle sue fabriche, e descritti e publicati con quelli di Vitruvio, Alberti, Palladio, Scamozzi, Serlio, e Vignola
- 2010 facsimile digital edition by the Internet Archive, digitized with funds from Research Library, Getty Research Institute. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pompei, Alessandro 1705 births 1772 deaths 18th-century Italian architects Architects from Verona Italian architecture writers Italian male non-fiction writers