2011/01/01 by Margherita Fratarcangeli · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Architecture and Art History Studies #Renaissance and Early Modern Studies #Historical Art and Architecture Studies
paper · doi:10.1484/j.frag.1.103518
openalex publication_date 2011/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
Francesco Peparelli’s large collection of books not only lends us a detailed intellectual and professional understanding of a civilized artist, but also demonstrates his connections with the cultural world of his day and with his fellow artists. The library can be seen to represent the paper traces of memory, the tangible record of the relationship between the draftsman and the authors he has consulted and read. In Peparelli’s library - as in that of other architects - we can find a complete range of sixteenth and seventeenth-century architectural treatises, from Vitruvius to Serlio, from Rusconi to Tartaglia, but there are also works on the art of painting, poetry by Petrarch, Marino and Niccolò Franco, the Amadis de Gaula saga and works by Stefano Guazzo. The book collection of a master-builder emerges as a small universe responding to the ideal of complete proficiency in the liberal and mechanical arts.