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)

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To the most Excellent Architect and Sculptor,
B A RT O L 0 M & O \A MM ANT L
ALthough Iamperfe&ly assur'd (my mod ingenious (Bartolomeo ) that
You, who ate so universally accomplissied, and in particular, so skil-
ful3 and well versed in Archketlure and Sculpture have no need
of thofc <%uks and Precepts which the moll Judicious Leon
Baptijla Alberti has Publisii'd concerning Statues^ yet I easily perswaded my
self that this Addressof them to You> would not be a thing unacceptable, as
being to a Person so well able to judge of that rare Fancy , and incomparable
Worth of the said Leon Baptifta, who in a time wherein little or nothing of
Sculpture was known (all good Arts and Sciences being then iii a manner anni-
hilated and wholly extinct throughout Italy, by reasbn of the many Inunda-
tions of Barbarians) employ'd the utmost of his Abilities to open an easy and
secureWay for our Youth; who tho' unexperienced themselves,delighted in this
mod noble Art 3 and to incite them to join diligent Practice with the Obser-
vation of sure and unerring Rules. No wonder therefore, if from that time
forward such wonderful Progress has been made in this Art^ as has brought
it to that Perfection wherein it is seen ssourishing at this Day : So as in this
Age of ours, we have no need to envy those so much admired Statues of the
mod celebrated Sculptors of the ancient (Romans, when we well consider what
has been performed by our Countryman Donato, and not many Years since
the divine Michael Angela %uonaroti 3 as after him, by Bacao (Bandinelli) Benuenuto
Cellini 3 and lastly, by Yourself 3 whereof, that I may produce sorhe Instances
(besides those many Statues which are extant of all your Hands) proclaiming
your lingular Merits to the Admiration of all Men, there are to be seen in
the Piazza of their Highnejses Royal (palace, the most beautiful Judith 5 the most
stupendious Colojso of David, the robust and fierce Hercules 3 the most master-
ly handled (perjeus, together with all his rare and curious Adornments • and
which is indeed the greatest of all the rest, Tour own Neptune, with the other
three Statues accompanying it, cut out of one intire Piece of Marble, and fram'd
with so magisterial a height os Art, as not only produces Wonder in all that
attentively behold it, but does at it were wholly astonilh them to contemplate
the Ingenuity, the Science, the Indussry, the Diligence, the Ajsetlion^ and, in sine^
the never to be sufficiently celebrated Skill os the Artisss. Vouchsase there-
fore that these (however impoliiVd) Instructions, so much conducing to the:
Information os unexperienced Youth, be recommended to the publick View
under Your Name and (protetlion 3 and as it has ever been Your Custom here-*
tofore, love your Friends, among whom I conjure You to esteem me none of
the least.
R FaremlL