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- Firenze: Gaetamp Cambiagi, 1770
Firenze: Gaetamp Cambiagi, 1770. 8vo. 215 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches]. Vi, 87 pp. Illustrated with a title-page woodcut vignette and 3 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary paste paper boards, title in manuscript on spine; some light soiling to covers and tide marks from moisture; with faults a very good copy.
First edition. This is the first specific work on the construction of rural buildings for people and animals. In previous eras, in fact, starting with Vitruvius and Columella, rural architecture occupied only a small section of various agricultural treatises. Morozzi, on the other hand, provides instructions for the construction of farms in different types of terrain, for the digging of wells and cisterns, for the identification of water and the methods for determining its quality.
Furthermore, the methods for building stables, sheepfolds, dovecotes, and cellars for storing wine are indicated. The three beautiful plates accompanying the work illustrate, in order, "Drawing for a Peasant's House for a Mountain Farm," "Scale and Plan of the Stables, Goats, and Stall for the Little Lambs," and the plan and section of a well with a "purgatory" and "drain." The work was reprinted in 1807 and, in a facsimile edition, in 1967.
Ferdinando Morozzi (1723-1785) was a Tuscan hydraulic engineer, mathematician, architect, and cartographer. He was officially commissioned to study and resolve the sudden floods of the Arno and to draw a large map of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He was a member of the Accademia dei Georgofili, which helped align the backward Tuscan agriculture with the standards of European countries.
OCLC cites copies at Columbia, Getty, UC Davis, Yale and National Gallery of Art; NUC cites Columbia and Yale only. Cicognara, Leopoldo. Catalogo Ragionato dei libri d’Arte, 944. Niccoli, Saggio Storico e Bibliografico dell’Agricoltura Italiana, pp. 266-267. "Very wise standards, highly responsive to current architectural concepts, are found in the work of Ferdinando Morozzi..."; Pazzini, Bibliografia Bacchica, p. 496. .
First edition. This is the first specific work on the construction of rural buildings for people and animals. In previous eras, in fact, starting with Vitruvius and Columella, rural architecture occupied only a small section of various agricultural treatises. Morozzi, on the other hand, provides instructions for the construction of farms in different types of terrain, for the digging of wells and cisterns, for the identification of water and the methods for determining its quality.
Furthermore, the methods for building stables, sheepfolds, dovecotes, and cellars for storing wine are indicated. The three beautiful plates accompanying the work illustrate, in order, "Drawing for a Peasant's House for a Mountain Farm," "Scale and Plan of the Stables, Goats, and Stall for the Little Lambs," and the plan and section of a well with a "purgatory" and "drain." The work was reprinted in 1807 and, in a facsimile edition, in 1967.
Ferdinando Morozzi (1723-1785) was a Tuscan hydraulic engineer, mathematician, architect, and cartographer. He was officially commissioned to study and resolve the sudden floods of the Arno and to draw a large map of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He was a member of the Accademia dei Georgofili, which helped align the backward Tuscan agriculture with the standards of European countries.
OCLC cites copies at Columbia, Getty, UC Davis, Yale and National Gallery of Art; NUC cites Columbia and Yale only. Cicognara, Leopoldo. Catalogo Ragionato dei libri d’Arte, 944. Niccoli, Saggio Storico e Bibliografico dell’Agricoltura Italiana, pp. 266-267. "Very wise standards, highly responsive to current architectural concepts, are found in the work of Ferdinando Morozzi..."; Pazzini, Bibliografia Bacchica, p. 496. .