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The article illustrates a few late Quattrocento albums concerning classical buildings in Rome; one of these album is Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibaldone. After a comparison between the albums and between them and the architecture representation in…

This article focuses on the translation of Vitruvius in Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibaldone; studied through the means of diplomatic, paleography, linguistics and architecture history. The translation may be a transcription of another transcript…

The article focuses on Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibaldone, specifically on drawings, annotations and notes concerning production of bells, cannons and other weapons, and a couple of sketches of funerary equestrian monuments. Some possible references…

Among the many drawings in Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibaldone there are also some concerning pulleys and other devices similar to the one designed in the same years by Francesco di Giorgio and Giuliano da Sangallo; so that it could be suggested that…

The article focuses on four drawings of church façades in Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibaldone; only one is easily recognized as San Miniato al Monte. Through a comparison with exisiting Renaissance architectures and those depicted in contemporary works…

The article focuses on Ghiberti’s tools and belongings, retracing them from a few previuosly unknown records concerning Lorenzo’s will -some Buonaccorso memories and a couple of arbitration awards related to Vittorio’s inheritance. Most interesting,…

Lorenzo Ghiberti’s life and works are described through archival records, Renaissance written sources, his own written production and many engravures. The last chapter examines Ghiberti’s heirs and pupils. In the appendix, extracts from the first and…