MILIZIA, Francisco.
El teatro. Obra escrita en italiano por D. Francisco Milizia; y traducida al espa–ol por D. J.F.O. [i.e. José Francisco Ortíz].
Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1789. 8vo. 237p. Small, clean tear in leaf M4 repaired with transparent archival tape. Contemporary vellum (with some wear at corners, edges and at joints). Very slight discolouration mainly in upper margin of first and final few leaves. Number '1397' in ink on front pastedown. **** 'Francisco Milizia (1725-1798) was unquestionably the most influential and the most prolific of the Italian Settecento theoreticians whose concepts and opinions, subsumed under the term Illuminismo (Enlightenment), are connected with rationalism and particularly with the doctrines of Carlo Lodoli. Milizia's architectural criticism is also the most consistent in its advocacy of the new, anti-baroque, and neoclassicist ideals.' - W. Oechslin, Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Architecture, v.3, pp.197-9. This work on the theatre (first Italian edition, 1711; Spanish translation by José Francisco Ortíz) contains a substantial discussion of theatre architecture, with brief discussions of the chief theatres of Italy, France, England and Russia. Palau 169294; A. Bonet Correa, Bibliografía de arquitectura, 147; not in STC of eighteenth-century Spanish books in the British Library.
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