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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TtJere is no Man pretending to this Art, or indeed to any other
nvhatfoever, who does not greedily embrace all that bears the
Name of Leon Baptift Alberti, who was # Florentine Gentleman
of illufirious Birth, great Learning, and extraordinary Abilities in all
the politer Sciences, as he flands celebratedby Paulus Jovius, and for
which be became fo dear to that great Mecenas Lorenzo di Medici*
who chofe him, with Marsilius Ficinus, Chriftopherus Landinus, and
other the mofl refined Wits of that Age, to entertain his Academic
Retirements and Solitude of Camaldoli: Tou have an ample Catalogue
of his learned Works, Latin and Italian, published at the End os his
Lise by Rafael du Frefne, that great French Virtuofo, together with
the Hi/lory of thofe many incomparable Structures designed and con*
dutled by this rare Genius, extant at this Day in Florence, Mantua,
Rimini, and other Cities of Italy; as being indeed one of the veryfirfl
thatpolifbed the now almofl utterly loft and extinguifbed Art of Ar-
chitecture ; in which how fuccefsfully he joined Pradtice to Speculation,
there are abundance of Examples, fome whereof are wrought by his
own Hands. He Compofed three Books, De PiCtura, full of incom-
parable Researches appertaining to that Noble Art; This of Statues
was firfl Written in Latin, but it having never been my hap to find it
{and I think it was never Printed) I made ufe of this Verfion out of
the Italian, as it was longsinceTublifhedby that Ingenious Terfon Co-
simo Bartoli, and have fubjoinedit to this Difcourfe of Architecture,
not only becaufe they cannot well be feparated, but for that the Au-
thor {being one os our Parallel) /^Argument appeared fo appofite and
full os profitable Inflruffiion to our Workmen, who sor want of these
or the like Rules, can neither Jecurely Work after the Life, or their
own Inventions,to the immenje Difgrace of that Divine Art This bries
Account I Ihought sit to present thee, Reader, concerning this Piece
os Alberti s, it being the very Firit os the Kind which ever Jpoke
our Language,,

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