abbecedari architettonici

Italian edition ONLY "L'architecture commença comme toute écriture. Elle fut d'abord alphabet" - Victor Hugo proclaimed in 1832: the updated edition of Sergio Polano's essay returns to illuminate one of the little-visible nooks and crannies of the variegated complex we call the abbecedario. It is its architectural component, apparently exotic but actually coexisting, in curious and sometimes bizarre forms, since the oldest printed repertories, to limit ourselves to them