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.