In the later Renaissance this study passed into purism.
[52] It must be confessed that this grandiose and picturesque structure is but a shell to mask an earlier Gothic edifice.
[53] Compare Vol.II., _Revival of Learning_, p.

370, for the same transference of power in literature from Central to Northern Italy at this time.
[54] Palladio's _Four Books of Architecture_, first published at Venice in 1570, and Vignola's _Treatise on the Five Orders_, have been translated into all the modern languages.

Scamozzi projected, and partly finished, a comprehensive work on _Universal Architecture_, which was printed in 1685 at Venice.
[55] See Vol.II., _Revival of Learning_, chap.

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