TY  - BOOK
Y1  - 2011///
TI  - East of Italy: early documentation of Mediterranean antiquities. Excerpts from Sebastiano Serlio: Il terzo libro di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese nel qual si figurano e descrivono le antiquità di Roma, e le altre cose che sono in Italia, e fuori d?Italia (Venezia 1540) with further texts excerpted from Bernardino Amico, Giosafat Barbaro, Garcia de Silva y Figueroa, Pietro Della Valle, Jean Chardin and others (FONTES 57)
ED  - Davis, Margaret Daly
N2  - Sebastiano Serlio?s third book on architecture, Il terzo libro di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese nel qual si figurano e descrivono le antiquità di Roma, e le altre cose che sono in Italia, e fuori d?Italia, published in Venice in 1540, contains, beyond illustrations and analytical texts treating the antiquities of Rome and other cities in Italy and Istria, three non-Roman monuments from the East, the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, the tomb of the Kings of Israel in Jerusalem and a monument consisting of one hundred columns which Serlio believed to be in Greece. The book further contains a treatise about some marvellous things in Egypt. Neither Serlio?s descriptions of the monuments in the Levant nor his treatise on the Cose meravigliose de l?Egitto have attracted particular attention in studies of the Terzo libro. Nevertheless these texts hold considerable interest. Serlio?s treatment of ancient monuments outside Italy was stimulated during his presence in Venice (1527/28 - 1541). French scholars and antiquarians, among them, the French ambassador to Venice, Guillaume Pellicier, told him about Roman monuments in France, and other Venetian friends, most notably Marco Grimani (1494-1544), the Patriarch of Aquileia, drew his attention to non-Roman antiquities in the Levant. Venice itself was an important repository of knowledge  about the Eastern Mediterranean, its libraries containing many manuscripts by travellers with reports of their journeys to the East. Serlio?s treatise sheds light upon the travellers who departed from Venice for the Orient ? ambassadors, diplomats, merchants, missionaries and pilgrims ? and who, in their travels, recorded the vestiges of earlier ages and other cultures.  The Terzo libro experienced a wide distribution and reception. Only four years following the first printing, in 1544, the second edition of the book appeared. Other editions in Italian followed in 1551, 1559, 1562, 1566, 1584 and 1600. Numerous translations ? into Netherlandish, Spanish, Latin, German and English ? were published in the following decades. Vincenzo Scamozzi?s very thorough index to Serlio?s books (1584) contributed significantly to the diffusion of Serlio?s treatment of ancient non-Roman architecture. Serlio?s analytic treatment of the buildings of ancient Rome and of the methods of construction of the Romans, together with his documentation of monuments in the Levant, rendered the Terzo libro an invaluable handbook for generations of later travellers, who investigated, interpreted and reconstructed the monuments they encountered beyond the confines of Italy. This is confirmed in the writings of such archaeologists and scholars as Bernardino Amico (ca. 1576 - after 1620), Garcia de Silva y Figueroa (1550 - 1624), Pietro Della Valle (1586 - 1652) and Jean Chardin (1643 - 1713).
ID  - artdok1352
A1  - Serlio, Sebastiano
AV  - public
KW  - Guiden / Reiseliteratur / Topographische Literatur ; Traktat / Architektur
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/1352/
ER  -