Fréart, Roland; Evelyn, John; Alberti, Leon Battista; Wotton, Henry [Editor]: 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)

11 o A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture

G H A P. VII
Palladio and Scamozzi, upon the Compositai
A Kdrea <Palhdio propbsing this Prosile of the Composita, which he alio
Jr\ names the Latin Order (to make it fyecisically differ srom fome others
which bears the fameAppellation) gives us a general Maxim for its Proportion,
which is to make it refemble the Corinthian, the Form only of the Capital ex-
cepted. And though he add, that this Order ought to be somewhat more
decked and gay than the Corinthian, it is to be underftood in reserence only
to thofe who allow the Corinthian Column but nine Diameters (as himfelf does)
whereas this mould ever have ten.
Scamozgfs Profile has not so good a Grace as that os Palladio, nor is it in-
deed so exact in Regularity os its Entablature with the Column, where it wants
but three Minutes upon the Total to make it precisely a sisth: sor though
this be a very small matter, yet since it had been better to have a little
exceeded than come (hort (the Ancients commonly allowing a whole fourth,
or at lead two ninths) the Defect is the more easily perceived. But what is yet
worfe, is, that in the Compofition of the Cornice he has accumulated so ma-
ny fmall Members one upon the other, as renders it trisling and a little con-
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