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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PART I.


N Architecture, as in all other Operative Arts, the End
must dired: the Operation.
The End is to Build well
Well Building hath three Conditions 5 Commodity, Finn-
Siesi^ and Delight,
A common Division among the Deliverers of this
Art, though I know not how somewhat misplaced by VitruYms himsels,
Lib- 1. Cap. 3. whom I (hall be willinger to follow, as a Master of Pro-
portion than of Method.
Now, for the attaining os these Intentions, we may consider the whole
Subject under two General Heads :
The Seat, and the Work.
Therefore, firss: touching Scituation.
The Precepts thereunto belonging, do either concern the Total Posture,
(as I may term it) or the placing of the Parts : Whereof the sirst Sore, how-
soever usually set down by Architects as a Piece of their Profession, yet are
in truth borrowed from other Learnings; there being between Arts and
Sciences, as well as between Men, a kind of good Feliowship, and Com-
munication of their Principles.
For you ssiall find some of them to be meerly Physical, touching the
Quality and Temper os the Air 5 which being a perpetual Ambient and
Ingredient, and the Desers thereos incorrigible in single Habitations (which
I most intend) doth in those Respe&s require the more exquisite Caution:
That it be not too gross, nor too penetratious, not subjecl: to any soggy
Noisomeness srom Fens or Marssies near adjoining, nor to mineral Exha-
lations srom the Soil itsels 5 not undigested sor want os Sun 5 not unexer-
cised sor want os Wind 3 which were to live (as it were) in a Lake, or
{landing Pool os Air, as J&erti, the Florentine Architect, doth ingenioussy.
compare it.
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