Gli oscvri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitrvvio
By: di latino in volgare et alla chiara inteligentia tradotti et con le sve figvre a lvochi svoi per Giovan Battista Bertano mantovano
Contributors: Bertano, Giovanni Battista, 1516-1576
Publisher: Per Venturino Ruffinello
Published: 1558
Place of publication: In Mantoa
Language: ita
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Ionic Columns; Early works to 1800; Architecture
Other titles: Oscuri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitruvio
Work titles: De architectura
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: [A]² B-C⁴ chi1 D⁴ 2chi1 E⁶ F⁴ G² ([A]1 blank).

Passages from Vitruvius are cited in Latin.

Getty copy lacks the frontispiece of Hercules, engraved by Giorgio Ghisi after Giovanni Battista Bertani; see The engravings of Giorgio Ghisi (New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), 24.

Binding: sprinkled yellow paper, half goatskin. Spine tooled in gilt; title and date on two labels. Page edges marbled in blue.

Centered on front pastedown is Giovanni Muzio's etched bookplate, signed in the plate by Giacomo Manzù. On endpaper facing t.p. are two old shelfmarks: XI.E.13 (lined out) and VI.F.6. Pages are numbered in brown ink at the upper outer corners.