Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture<br><br>Some of these peculiarities and crudities of expression Professor Morgan purposely imitated because of his conviction that a translation should not merely reproduce the substance of a book but should also give as clear a picture as possible of the original of its author and of the working of his mind. The translation is intended then to be faithful and exact but it deliberately avoids any attempt to treat the language of Vitru vius as though it were Ciceronian or to give a false impression of conspicuous literary merit in a work which is destitute of that quality. The translator had however the utmost confidence in the sincerity of Vitruvius and in the serious purpose of his treatise on architecture.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.