ABSTRACT
The beautiful and commodious buildings and edifices which form the main parts of the city, are those that are the most ornamented, honoured and made beautiful and famous. But above all, all the beautiful and comfortable dwellings, houses and abodes of citizens are important, because there is an infinite number of them and they make the city. Without them there would be no city. Architects have written very little of them, and therefore I will write about them in order to teach citizens not just architects. I will not write about theatres, amphitheatres, terms, nor about how to make a city because this never happens, and because these other types of buildings cannot be useful. The divine Vitruvius and the great Leon Battista Alberti have not written about this enough.
