Universalis or Selecta? The classification of books on architecture at the time of printing: contribution to an analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper is about the books on architecture recorded in the two main Renaissance repertories Bibliotheca universalis and Bibliotheca selecta, to bring out the role of architectural treatises in the Renaissance bibliographic vision between the cosmology of knowledge, the topographical characteristics of knowledge and the tradition of knowledge. The analysis is considered between the architectural context and the bibliographic context where different visions of the architectural discipline build up a piece of the history of culture such as Historia literaria.

Keywords

• architecture
• renaissance
• gesner
• possevino
• bibliography