Publications

This page lists works published through or in affiliation with the Piero della Francesca Society.

Official Society Publications

Forthcoming, under contract: He Li, An Annotated Piero della Francesca Reader. Lux Patrum Publishing

The first book of its kind on the artist, featuring key passages in texts by Piero della Francesca and his colleagues who mention him directly. These selections will be translated specifically for the book, many of them for the first time in English. The work will also feature a well-researched commentary discussing the philosophical and literary provenance and significance of each passage.

Table of Content:

1. Passages from Piero’s Treatises
   1. Selections from De Prospectiva Pingendi 
      1. On Painting and Form
         1. Commentary
      2. On Science and Demonstration
         1. Commentary
      3. Closing Poems by Matteo dal Borgo
         1. Commentary
   2. Selections from De Abaco 
      1. On Measuring Irregular Forms
         1. Commentary
   3. Selections from De Quinque Corporibus Regularibus
      1. Humanist Preface to the Work
         1. Commentary
      2. On the Squaring of the Circle
         1. Commentary
      3. On Measuring Irregular Forms
         1. Commentary
2. Passages about Piero
   1. Selection from De divina proportione by Luca Pacioli
      1. Introduction to the Work
         1. Commentary
   2. Selection from La vita e le gesta di Federico di Montefeltro, duca d’Urbino by Giovanni Santi
      1. Discourse on Artists
         1. Commentary