Leonardo da Vinci and Painting.

Foreword by Carlo Pedretti. Poggio a Caiano, CB Publishers 2010, cm.16x18, pp.152, numerose ill.a col.nt., brossura,cop.fig.a col. [Stato di nuovo]. English Edition.

Foreword by Carlo Pedretti. English edition. Firenze, C.B. Cartei e Bianchi 2010, cm.16x18, pp.154, num.figg.a col.nt. brossura cop.fig.a col. Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo's first biographer, said that the artist used to sketch "many designs for architecture". In fact, in the so-called "letter of employment" written to Ludovico il Moro in 1482, Leonardo presented himself as a military engineer, able to satisfy the demands of the Duke of Milan in peace and in war, declaring that he "can give perfect satisfaction and to the equal of any other in architecture and the composition of buildings public and private". And then he speaks of his ability in hydraulic engineering for conducting water "from one level to another". Leonardo studied in depth several ancient texts but also the treatises of his own time: in particular the treatise of military and civil architecture by the Sienese engineer and architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini, a text that contains projects for fortifications with bastions, able to offer resistance to the artillery fire. This could explain Leonardo's fascination with fortifications, his involvement in the project to realize the tiburio for the Milan cathedral. He made a great many architectural projects for gardens and elegant buildings, testing out innovative solutions, such as the internal stairs. This allows us to better understand his excellent competence in architecture and why he attempted to plan the "ideal city", conceived as being organized on two different levels, one for pedestrians and the other suitable for vehicle transportation. He also projected also religious buildings, studying different solutions for the centralized plan based on complex systems of architectural symmetries.

Foreword by Carlo Pedretti. English translation by Valentina Diani. Poggio a Caiano, CB Publishers 2010, cm.16x18, pp.160, numerose ill.a col.nt., brossura, cop.fig.a col.con bandelle. Stato di nuovo.

Foreword by Carlo Pedretti. Firenze, C.B. Cartei e Bianchi 2010, cm.16x18, pp.160, num.figg.a col.nt. brossura cop.fig.a col.

Besenello (TN), Castel Beseno - Bressanone (BZ), Palazzo Vescovile - Lienz, Schloss Bruck, 13 maggio - 31 ottobre 2000. Milano, Skira 2000, cm.24X28, pp. 537, 358 ill. bn. num. nt., 157 ill. col. num legatura ed.soprac.fig.a col. Coordinamento di Meinrad Pizzinini, Claudia Sporer-Heis, Eva Gadner, Leo Andergassen e Carlo Andrea Postinger. Testo in Italiano.

Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1981, cm.14x22, pp.220,(8), legatura ed.cartonata, sopraccop.fig.a colori. Prima edizione. "Questo album di 'foto di gruppo in provincia' registra con inedita fedeltà un passato italiano quasi remoto di dieci anni fa, confrontandolo idealmente, nella coscienza dei lettori, con i vizi, gli scandali, il terrorismo dei giorni nostri." (dalla sopraccoperta)