Teofilo Gallaccini
Selected Writings and Library

This volume offers a selection of inedited writings by the Sienese polymath Teofilo Gallaccini (1564-1641) on architecture, sciences and letters. The texts – the Monade celeste (on astronomy); his commentaries on John Dee’s Monas hieroglyphica and on Sebastiano Serlio’s Books III and IV; a selection of lectures delivered at the Accademia dei Filomati; and his reconstructed library – illustrate the breadth and interconnectedness of a scholar’s thought on the eve of the Scientific Revolution.

Alina Payne
Alina Payne is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She is the author of The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Rudolf Wittkower (Bollati-Boringheri, 2010) and From Ornament to Object. Genealogies of Architectural Modernism (Yale University Press, 2012), editor of Displacements. Architecture and the Other Side of the Known (Toronto 2000) and co-editor of Antiquity and Its Interpreters (Cambridge University Press, 2000). She has held visiting appointments at Villa I Tatti (Florence), Kunsthistorisches/ Max Planck Institut (Florence), École Pratique des Hautes études (Paris) and Hertziana/ Max Planck Institute (Rome). She is the holder of the Max Planck and Alexander von Humboldt Prize in the Humanities (2006-11).

Giovanni Maria Fara
Giovanni Maria Fara è Professore ordinario di Storia dell’arte moderna e Direttore del Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
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