My dissertation examines the critical reception and interpretation of the architectural and literary works of the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio by eighteenth-century architects and theorists of the Veneto. Specifically, my dissertation addresses neo-Palladianism within its discursive context through an examination of the texts, manuscripts, designs, buildings, and polemics, which collectively forged and perpetuated a modern interpretation of Palladio’s legacy in the latter half of the eighteenth century.