Fréart, Roland; Evelyn, John; Alberti, Leon Battista; Wotton, Henry [Hrsg.]: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern: in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another ; the three Greek orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise ; and the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter (London, 1733)

The EPISTLE.
died in his Castle of Dangu, on Friday the twentieth os OQoher, at
One a Clock after Noon, in the Year 1645*, and in the six and
fiftieth of his Age, two Years and a hals aster his Recess srom Court,
his Body being transported to the Church os the Novitiat belonging
to the Jesuits, which he had built in Honour os St. Xaverius, and
destin'd for his Sepulchre. This Church is look'd upon as the moft
regular Piece of Architecture in Taris; and tho' it be not so exceed-
ingly charged with Ornaments as some others are, yet it appears very
noble in the Eyes of intelligent Persons, all that is there being done
with an Intention and Care so extraordinary. But that which in it
excels all the rest, is a Picture of one of the Miracles wrought by
St. Xavier, which was painted here at the same Time with that ad-
mirable Supper os the Apostles (which he caused to be plac'd at the
Altar of the Chapel-Royal of theCaftle of St. Germains, where all the
Figures exceed the Natural) both of them the Works os our samous
Master le TouJJin, and indeed worthy his Pencil, tho' the first os them
was painted with extraordinary Hafte, and during the Winter.
You see (dear Brothers) a small Draught os a Part os the Lise of our
most precious and moll honour'd defunft M. de Noyers, that incompa-
rable Genius of France, never to be sufficiently praised, never enough
regretted, because comparable to the greateft Examples os Antiquity.
I would by all means place him in the Front os this Book os mine, to
let the World see that I had no other Objeft in the sinifhing of this
Work (os which he honoured me with the Charge) than to render
the same Service and Veneration to his Memory, being dead, I
could persorm to his Person, were he yet alive. However, in reas
suming it at your Request, my sirft Ardour being much alloy'd, what
was heretosore a liberal and divertising Study, during the Prefence os
my late Lord and Mafter, is now become a Difficulty, and a kind os
Constraint; since I have been sorc'd to alter, and even retrench di-
verse Particulars which were then very essential to my Design, but
would now have been altogether ufelefs and unfeafonable. Receive
then (my dear Brother) this Fragment os a Book, fo much at leaft as
remains of it; and if there occurs any thing which may prove yet
confiderable in fuch clear and difcerning Eyes as your's are, and that
my Designs seems worthy of any Place amongft your other Curiosities,
you owe the Obligation of it to our common Friend Monfieur Errardy
who was pleased to take a great deal of Pains to fee it perfe£ted; and
has not only perfwaded me (as well as you) to publissi it to the
World; but has, more than this, contributed likewise to it os his own
Labour and particular Elucubrations.
From Parts, the
22 of May, 1650.

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