Contents: 1. Pliny the Elder and his place in antique and mediaeval writings on architecture. 2. Initial explorations: Petrarch, the Mirabilia Urbis Romae and Flavio Biondo. 3. The manuscript hunter and the librarian: Poggio Bracciolini and Giovanni Tortelli. 4. A new system: Pomponio Leto and his school. 5. Emerging doubts. 6. Pliny and Leon Battista Alberti: two 'architectural histories'. 7. Pliny, Filarete and the ideal patron of architecture. 8. 'Aldus and his dream book': the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. 9. A more down-to-earth Pliny. 10. Mixing the traditions: the curious case of Cesare Cesariano. 11. Developments in the Veneto: the Vitruvian commentaries of Daniele Barbaro and I quattro libri by Andrea Palladio. 12. Standing before the marvels: Ciriaco d'Ancona and Pliny's 'Opera mirabilia in terris'. 13. In the mind's eye: drawings of Plinian wonders, from Leonardo to Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. 14. From paper to stone: rebuilding Pliny's architectural marvels. Final thoughts: Pliny's influence on the Renaissance understanding of ancient architecture.

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