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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N reviling the (parallel, and preparing it sor a New Impreflion,
I once had Thoughts of fubjoining the exact and critical Mea-
sures of Monsieur de Gaudete 3 who reckoning from the Diame-
ter of the Safe of the Column, divided into Sixty equal Parts,
on two Models, fubdivides every Part so minutely, and thofe
Parts and Subdivisions again into yet leffer Parts, that upon
so very nice and scrupulous an Examination of not only the feveral more
EJfential Members 3 but even of the leffer Jccejfaries of all the Greeks Orders
yet extant, and of undeniable Antiquity (which the mod Skilsul
and Famous os our Modern7 JrchiteBs have taken their Meafures from,
and propofed sor their Examples) he feems to call sor, and exad a New
Account of all that has hitherto been done. This falling chiefly on Palladio,
Serlio, and the reft, I think myfelf concerned only for Monsieur de Cambray,
Author of this Excellent Work. Not that I efteem thofe Scruples,
and hardly, if at all to be difcerned Exceptions mentioned in their Pla-
ces, to be very material, confidering the Modeft Liberty which has fre-
quently been taken by even the Ancients themfelves upon Occafion 5 but to
take off the Prejudice which fome haply may conceive, who might other-
wife think them of more Importance than perhaps they really are 3 efpeci-
ally fince, befide many other3 we have the Suffrage of that able and knowing
JrchiteB, the late Monsieur Bloudel-, who in his d(ecenJton of the moft Famous
JrchiteBs, Ancient and Modern, has this Paflage, fpeaking os the (parallel,
<c That moft Incomparable and Judicious Work, says he, of Monsieur de
" Chambray I can never fufficiently commend, filled and enriched as it is
" with a Thoufand learned and judicious Remarks: Having compared the
" feveral Manners of the Chief and Principal of our Modern JrchiteBs one
<c with the other, and affigned them their refpeclive Gasfes 3 that which
" is of infinite Advantage, is alfo his having reduced all their heretosore
" feveral