Exercitationes Vitruvianae primae. Hoc est: Ioannis Poleni commentarius criticus de M. Vitruvii Pollionis Architecti X librorum editionibus, necnon de eorundem editoribus, atque de aliis, qui Vitruvium quocumque modo explicarunt, aut illustrarunt
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- Title: Exercitationes Vitruvianae primae. Hoc est: Ioannis Poleni commentarius criticus de M. Vitruvii Pollionis Architecti X librorum editionibus, necnon de eorundem editoribus, atque de aliis, qui Vitruvium quocumque modo explicarunt, aut illustrarunt
- Author: Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century BCE)
- Editor: Edited and Commentary by Giovanni Poleni (Italian, Venice 1683–1761 Padua)
- Author: Giambattista Morgagni (Italian, 1682–1771)
- Author: Bernardino Baldi (Italian, 1553–1617)
- Author: Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati) (Italian, Castelnuovo di Garfagnana ca. 1520–ca. 1575 Venice)
- Author: Giovanni Battista Bertano (Mantua 1516–1576 Mantua)
- Artist and engraver: Designed and Illustrated by Antonio Maria Visentini (Italian, Venice 1688–1782 Venice)
- Publisher: Sold by Francesco Pitteri (Italian, active 17th century)
- Printer: Giovanni Manfre (Italian, active 17th century)
- Published in: Venice
- Date: 1739
- Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations and engraved illustration
- Dimensions: Overall: 13 3/16 x 9 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (33.5 x 24.7 x 4 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
- Object Number: 41.100.392
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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