Architecture and the Language Debate - 9781032238494

Taylor & Francis

Architecture and the Language DebateArtistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy\nAuthor(s): Nicholas Temple\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032238494, 978-1032238494\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the spectrum of linguistic disputes during this time among members of the clergy, humanists, philosophers and polymaths on issues of grammar, rhetoric, philology, etymology and epigraphy, and how these disputes paralleled and informed important developments in architectural thinking and practice. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material, such as humanist tracts, philosophical works, architectural/antiquarian treatises, epigraphic/p.