Palatino 766 pipes, pools, cliffs, streams... (by Taccola)

[Bernd]

Well, your personal opinion certainly matters to me, Marco, and I think to most of the readers here as well!

There is surprisingly little academic work on Taccola. Shelby (1975) is quite critical about the facsimiles of Prager and Beck which were both published in the early 70s yet independently of each other. I don't know the forum policy on uploading articles but here you go. 7 articles, 35MB:
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I am still missing these publications:
Beck, J.H., ed. (1969). Mariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola, 'Liber tertius de ingeneis ac edifitiis non usitatis'. Milan: dizioni il Polifilo. p. 156.
Knobloch, Eberhard (1981). Mariano di Jacopo detto Taccolas De machinis: Ein Werk der italienischen Frührenaissance. Technikgeschichte. Vol. 48. pp. 1–27