Lara Broecke Il Libro dell'Arte All Books sku-44976936

Lara Broecke's All Books listing, SKU sku-44976936, is a paperback translation of Cennino Cennini's Il Libro dell'Arte. It includes an introduction, notes, English commentary and a transcription of the Italian text. The book examines Cennino's life and times and the materials and techniques of artists in fourteenth-century Italy. It corrects more than 400 errors in D. V.

Thompson's translation, The Craftsman's Handbook, which was published over eighty years earlier as a workshop manual for readers following Cennino's instructions. The introduction discusses the society in which Il Libro dell'Arte was produced.

Alongside the translation and transcription, the contents include a foreword, acknowledgements, chapters on Cennino and the text's transmission and translation, notes on transcription and translation, an appendix and a bibliography. Further notes address substantive differences from Thompson's translation.