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)

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5/^// not need (like the moji part of Writers') to
celebrate the Subje£t which I deliver j in that
Taint I am at Eafe : For Archite&ure can want
no Commendation, where there are noble Men,
or noble Minds : / will therefore Jpend this Pre-
face rather about those from whom I have gather-
ed my Knowledge : For I am but a Gatherer and
T)ifpoJer of other Mens Stuff at my beji Value.
Our principal Master is Vitruvius, and Jo Ipall osten call him,
who had this Felicity, that he wrote when the Roman Empire was
near theTitch; or at leaf, when Augustits (who favoured his En-
deavours) had fome Meaning (if he were not miftaken) to bound
the * Monarchy : This, I Jay, was his good hap, sor in growing
and enlarging Times, Arts are commonly drowned in Action: But
on the other fide, it was in truth an Unhappiness to exprefs hint-
[elf fo ill, especially writing (as he did) in a Seafon of the ablefl
Pens; and his Oblcurity had this sirange Fortune, that though he
were bejipra&ifed and beji followed ly his own Countrymen, yet
after the reviving and repolishing of good Literature (which the
Combufiions and Tumults of the middle Age had uncivilized) he
was be/t, or at leaft, firfi underflood by Strangers: For of the Ita-
lians that took him in hand, thofe that were Grammarians [eem to
have wanted Mathematical Knowledge, and the Mathematicians
perhaps wanted Grammar, 'till both were Sufsiciently conjoined in
LeonBaptifta Alberti /^Florentine, whom !repute the fir/i learned
Architect beyond the Alps; but he Jludied more indeed to make
him j elf an Author, than to illu(irate his Matter : Therefore among
his Commenters, imuft {sor my private Conceit)yield the chief
Traifeunto //^French, ^Philander; and to the High-Germans,
in Gualterus Rivius, who, befides his Notes, hath Itkewijepublifhed
the mofi elaborate Tranflation that I think is extant in any vulgar
Speech of the World, though not without bewailing, now and then,
JomeDefett of artisicial Terms in his own, as I mu/l like wife ;
for ifthe Saxon (our Mother Tongue) did complain; as jujily (I
doubt)
* Tacit. Lib. i. AnnaL