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:"Determined to see at least one notable thing, he preceded to Milan to visit the Duomo, where there happened to be one Cesare Cesariano, reputed a good geometrician and architect, who had written a commentary on Vitruvius. Enraged at not having received the reward which he had expected, Cesare refused to work any more, and, becoming eccentric, he died more like a beast than a man." Cesariano is chiefly remembered as the first translator of Vitruvius ' treatise ''De Architectura'' into a modern language (Italian), with his added commentary, It was published, with copious woodcut illustrations, at Como , 1521. It was soon plagiarized in editions published at Venice, but all were superseded by Daniele Barbaro 's edition, with illustrations by Andrea Palladio , 1556. Vitruvius' technical language is fraught with difficulties. , but attempted by many 15th century theorists {Link without Title} Cesariano's illustrations, though not as influential as Sebastiano Serlio 's, had some influence in the picturesque and classicizing vocabulary of Northern (Antwerp) Mannerism REFERENCES
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