The Literary Remains of Sebastiano Serlio

Abstract

Exactly four hundred years have passed since Sebastiano Serlio of Bologna,1 then on the verge of his sixty-sixth birthday,2 conducting from Venice a small caravan consisting of his wife Francesca Palladia and numerous children, including one “petit enfant qui n'est encores pour endurer en ce temps icy tel voyaige,”3 arrived in Paris to begin life anew.4 The date was epochal for the Renaissance of French