Per una traduzione italiana delle Medidas del romano di Diego de Sagredo (1526)

The Medidas del romano [Measurements of a Roman building], is a manual for the reproduction of proportions, orders, moldings of ancient buildings: the first architectural treaties written and published outside Italy in 1526, by Diego de Sagredo (Burgos, 1490-Toledo, 1528 ca.). Based on the Latin Vitruvio of Giocondo da Verona, the vulgarization of Ciseriano, the De re aedificatoria [On the art of building] by Alberti, it depicts the Italian Renaissance classicism as a decorative, not conceptual resource. Though translated in many languages, it was never published in Italian because its cultural ideology, soon to be popular all over Europe, was resented in Italy. Later on, it was reintroduced in the Peninsula by foreign artists as part of a historical phenomenon that today can be identified as a ―globalization‖ process.