A key means by which Palladio's ideas spread was through his 1570 publication I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture), a treatise on architecture that contained ...
The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of ...
A key figure in this process was the architect Inigo Jones (1573–1652), who made several trips to Italy, acquired a copy of the Four Books of Architecture, and collected original drawings by Palladio.