High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! I quattro libri dell`architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is an Italian treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with woodcuts after the author`s own drawings. It has been reprinted and translated many times (often in single-volume format). Book I was first published in English in 1663 in a London edition by Godfrey Richards. The first complete English language edition was published in London by the Italian-born architect Giacomo Leoni in 1716-1720.