Guarino Guarini’s Architectural Theory and Counter-Reformation Aristotelianism: Visuality and Aesthetics in Architettura civile and Placita philosophica

Branko Mitrović

I Tatti Studies. Journal of the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, 23 (2020), 375-396.

The article analyses the philosophical background of Guarino Guarini’s architectural theory, and seeks to explain his views on architecture as presented in his Architettura civile in the context of his Aristotelian worldview presented in his philosophical treatise Placita philosophica.