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Chapter 5276 first Italian translation. Moeover they may have actually read later abbrevia- tions and elucidations, for instance Diego de Sagredo’s Medidas de Romano, a dialogue explaining the basics of Vitruvian architecture that was first pub- lished in Toledo in 1526 and was repeatedly reprinted in French translations [Fig. 5.28].47 The 1540s saw a strongly increasing interest in the theory and practice of classical architecture: it produced the scholarly translation of Vitruvius by Daniele Barbaro, illustrated by Palladio, in 1556; the French translation, Archi- tecture ou Art de bien bastir, by Jean Martin (with illustrations by the famous sculptor, self-styled ‘Jean Goujon, studieux d’architecture’), also in 1547, and a German one a year later, Vitruvius Teutsch, by Walter Hermann Ryff (or Rivius) [Fig. 5.29], most of which were themselves influenced by the learned com- mentary on Vitruvius’ often obscure text by the French humanist Guillaume Philandrier.48 The same decade saw the publication of several new editions and transla- tions of Alberti’s De Re aedificatoria, as well as, from 1537 onward, that of several books of the extremely influential illustrated treatise of Sebastiano Serlio, which were almost immediately reprinted and translated in several languages, largely in Antwerp by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.49 The boom of architectural publishing of the period was probably stimulated by the tremendous success 47 M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intel- ligi possit, Venice (Tacuino) 1511; Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione de architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare affigurati, commentati et con mirando ordine insigniti, Como (Gotardus de Ponte) 1521 ; Diego de Sagredo, Medidas del romano neccessarias a los oficiales que qui- eren seguir las formaciones de las basas, columnas, capiteles y otras pieças de los edificios antiguos, Toledo, en casa d[e] Ramón de Petras, 1526, repeatedly reprinted; translated as Raison D’architecture antique, extraicte de Victruve et autres anciens architecteurs nouvel- lement traduit Despaignol en Francoys: alutilite de ceux qui se delectent en edifices, Paris, S. de Colines, s. d. [1536]; reprinted 1539, 1542 and later. 48 I dieci libri dell’architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da Monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca dʼAquileggia, In Vinegia per Francesco Marcolini, 1556; Architecture ou Art de bien bastir, de Marc Vitruve Pollion Autheur Romain antique: mis de Latin en Fran- coys, par Ian Martin Secretaire de Monseigneur le Cardinal de Lenoncourt, Paris, Jacques Gazeau, 1547; reprinted 1572 and later; <Walther Ryff>, Vitruvius Teutsch. nemlichen des <…> Marci Vitruvius Pollonis zehen Bücher von der Architectur und künstlichem Bawen: ein Schlüssel und Einleitung aller mathematischen und mechanischen Künst <…> Erstmals ver- teutscht und in Truck verordnet durch Gualtherum H. Rivium <…>, Nürnberg [s.n.], 1548; Ryff was earlier involved in a Latin octavo edition printed at Strassburg in 1543; Guillaume Philandrier, In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura annotationes <…>, Rome, G. Andrea Dossena, 1544, reprinted 1545 (twice!) and 1557, and added to Vitruvius editions of 1550 and 1552. 49 By 1560 these included the first five books of the treatise as well as the Extraordinario Libro in various editions; cf. Bury 1989.