It must be confessed that this grandiose and picturesque structure is but a shell to mask an earlier Gothic edifice.
Compare Vol. II., Revival of Learning, p. 370, for the same transference of power in literature from Central to Northern Italy at this time.
Palladio's Four Books of Architecture, first published at Venice in 1570, and Vignola's Treatise on the Five Orders, have been translated into all the modern languages. Scamozzi projected, and partly finished, a comprehensive work on Universal Architecture, which was printed in 1685 at Venice.
See Vol. II., Revival of Learning, chap. viii.