Architettura del Rinascimento in Napoli

E.P.S.A. Editrice Politecnica S.A., Napoli, 1937 This is a very early work of the prolific Italian scholar of art and architectural history, Roberto Pane, SIGNED by Pane on the front endpaper (Napoli, 1945). With the dustcover. Stiff card covers, printed on front cover and spine, 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches, 327 pp., index, numerous b/w drawings and photo illustrations. Book about good plus. Dustcover about good minus. Pane's signature is rare. "Roberto Pane, an Italian scholar of art and architectural history, died July 28 (1987) in Sorrento, Italy. He was 90 years old. Born in Taranto in 1897, Mr. Pane studied at the University of Rome and, for many years, was on the faculty of Naples University. He became one of the foremost scholars of Neapolitan and southern Italian culture, writing many books and monographs on the monuments and other buildings of the region. His two-volume study of Renaissance art and architecture of the area, 'Il Rinascimento nell'Italia Meridionale,' is considered his most important work. Since 1961, he had also directed 'Napoli Nobilissima,' a scholarly journal founded by Mr. Pane's friend, Benedetto Croce, the philospher. His research interests also included Spanish and Central American architecture and 19th-century French literature." (K066). Signed by Author(s). Soft cover. Good/Good.