This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX ANDREA PALLADIO'S FAMILY AND DECLINING DAYS WE have no information regarding Palladio's marriage, neither do we find any mention made of the wife of so famous a man. She is merely called "Moglie," a word much used in these days even in the noblest families. Her death is also shrouded in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX ANDREA PALLADIO'S FAMILY AND DECLINING DAYS WE have no information regarding Palladio's marriage, neither do we find any mention made of the wife of so famous a man. She is merely called "Moglie," a word much used in these days even in the noblest families. Her death is also shrouded in uncertainty. It appears a tomb was built by Silla, Palladio's son, and Della Fede, his son-in-law, two years before his own death, and we can but surmise that this may have been for his wife, if not for her, then probably for his only daughter, Zenobia. Palladio had a family of four sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Marc Antonio, became a sculptor, like his father; we find him living at Venice in 1588, and he died in 1600. Leonidas, who assisted his father, died about 1574. We read of his directing the building of the dome at Montagnana in 1566.1 Silla, the youngest, was an architect, and assisted by Scamozzi, completed the Teatro Olimpico, upon which his father was engaged at the time of his death, and died about 1627. Zenobia married Giovanni Battista, afterwards Della Fede, a goldsmith, whose name appears inscribed in the guild of goldsmiths at Vicenza. Orazio, the third son, studied law in Padova in 1564. He was capable, it seems, of writing cultivated poetry, and a sonnet to Giovanna Aragona in 1568 shows great nobility of thought and elegance of style. He died about 1574. Palladio, who appears to have been a most devoted father, gave up much of his time to the instruction of his sons. His treatise upon the works of Caesar in 1575 contained copper engravings executed by them. 1 "Memorie Intorno." A. Palladio. It is extremely pathetic to think of the great man's grief at the loss of his beloved children. His two sons died within a...
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