%0 Journal Article %T Virtu -vious : Roman Architecture, Renaissance Virtue %A Indra Kagis McEwen %J Cahiers des ¨¦tudes Anciennes %D 2011 %I University of Ottawa & Laval University %X In the service initially of Julius Caesar during his meteoric rise to autocratic rule, Vitruvius wrote in the mid-first century a. C., at the fall of the Roman republic and the beginning the period of one-man rule known as the Empire. After Caesar¡¯s assassination in 44 a. C., Vitruvius transferred his allegiance to Caesar¡¯s adopted son, Octavian Augustus, the first Roman emperor to whom he addressed his treatise on architecture. My own view is that Vitruvius¡¯s intentions are to be understood ... %K post¨¦rit¨¦ %K Vitruve %K ¨¦thique %K Alberti %K Filar¨¨te %U http://etudesanciennes.revues.org/334