Alessandro Galilei e le fonti classiche dell’architettura in Inghilterra.

Abstract

This article seeks to outline Italian participation in the debate on the architecture of the early eighteenth century in Europe, taking as its starting point the direct involvement of emerging figures on the Italian architectural scene in the disclosing of architectural sources and treatises in Britain and the documentation on the activity of the Florentine Alessandro Galilei, the author of a treatise on civil architecture written in both Italian and English.
Carried out by certain enlightened entrepreneurs of scientific knowledge on the other side of the Channel at the dawn of the influential neo-Palladian period in England, English translations of the classical sources of Italian architecture are essential in explaining the dissemination of the grammar of classical architectural and the frequent undertaking of the Grand Tour.