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THIRD BOOK.
Tur other streets, espedally the more noble os them, ought aho to be made, not oalj
to lead to the principal piazza, but alio tu the most remarkable temples, palaces, portico's,
and other public sabrics,
But in this compartment os the streets, it ought tube oblerved, with the utmost dili-
gence (as Vitruvius teaches us in the iixth chapter of his first book) that they iliould
not in a direct line sace feme winds, that through them iurious and violent wind:
not be selt; but that they may, with more salubrity to the inhabitants, come broken, gentle,
purified and ipent, lest the (dim- inconveniency iliould be incurred which happened to those
who in the illand of Lejbos laid out the streets of Mstyknr, from which city the whole
iihml has now taken the name.
The streets in a city ought to be paved ; and we read, that under the consulship os M.
/Emilius, the censors began to pave in Rome, where lome are Itill to be leen, which are
all even, and are paved with irregular (tones j which manner of paving, how it was done,
(lull be mentioned hereaster. But is one is willing to divide the place where men are to walk,
from that which serves sor the use os carts and of cattle, 1 iliould like that the streets
were divided, that on the one and on the other part there were portico's made, through
which the citizens might, under cover, go and do their bulineis, without being molessed
by the sun, by the rains and snow: in which manner are ahnost all the streets of
Padua disposed, a very anticnt city, and celebrated sor learning. Or if no portico's be made
(in which case the ilreets will be more ample and pleasant) some margins are to be mads
vn each side, paved with mattoni, which are baked rtones, thicker and narrower than
bricks, becauie they do not at all ofsend the feet in walking; and 'he middle pan is to be
lest sor the carts and cattle, and to be paved with ssints or any other hard stones.
The streets ought to be somewhat concave in the middle, and il.intiug, that the water
which tails srom the houses may all run to one place, and have a freer courle, whereby the
streets are lest clean, and arc not the causc of bad air; as is the caie when it st< ips in any]
and there putrifies.
CHAP. III.
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Os the Wa v s without the city.
TH E ways without the city ought to be made ample, commodious, having trees on cither
side, by which travellers may be defended srom the scorching heats of the sun, and
their eyes receive some recreation srom the verdure. The antients took great care os these
way*: that they might theresore always be in good repair, they establiilied proveditors and
curators os them; by whom many of them were made, of which there (till remains some
memory of their beauty and conveniency, although they have been impaired by time. But
the Flamiman and the App'uin are the most smvm" ot'dum all ; the first was made by Flami-
Nius, while he w.is conius, alter the victory he had over the Genoefe. This way began from
the gate Ylumcntana, now called del Popoh, and palling through Tufbany, and through Um&ria,
led to Rimini; srom which city it was asterwards, continued to Bologna by M. Lepjdus, his
collegue; and near the soot of the Alps, by windings, to avoid the sens, he carried it to
Aqutfeia. The Appian took its name srom Appius Claudius, by whom it was made
with much Ik ill and at great cxpence: thence, sor its magnificence and wondersul artifice, it
was by the poets called the Qtjeen os ways. This street began from the Coliseo, and through
the gate Cafena reached to Brindisi, It was continued only to Capua by Appius; from thence
forwards, there is no certainty who made it; and it is the opinion of some, that it was
C^sar: becausc we read in Plutarch, that the care os this way being given to Cjesar,
he spent thereon a great deal o{ money. It was lastly repaired by the Emperor Trajan,
who (as I have laid besore) bv drying up senny places, levelling mountains, filling up valleys,
and by making bridges where it was neceiTary, made the travelling thereon both expeditious
and agreeable. The Via Aurelia is also very much celebrated. It was so called srom Au-
i ■.: i us a Roman citizen, who made it. It began from the gate AttreHa^ now called
San. Pecrotio, and extending itfclf through all the maritime places of lufcany, led to Pija.
The ViaNmentana, the PraenejHna, and the Ubicana} were of no less renown. The
first began srom the gate Fiminalis, now called S. Agnefa, and reached to the c'ny of ho-
THIRD BOOK.
Tur other streets, espedally the more noble os them, ought aho to be made, not oalj
to lead to the principal piazza, but alio tu the most remarkable temples, palaces, portico's,
and other public sabrics,
But in this compartment os the streets, it ought tube oblerved, with the utmost dili-
gence (as Vitruvius teaches us in the iixth chapter of his first book) that they iliould
not in a direct line sace feme winds, that through them iurious and violent wind:
not be selt; but that they may, with more salubrity to the inhabitants, come broken, gentle,
purified and ipent, lest the (dim- inconveniency iliould be incurred which happened to those
who in the illand of Lejbos laid out the streets of Mstyknr, from which city the whole
iihml has now taken the name.
The streets in a city ought to be paved ; and we read, that under the consulship os M.
/Emilius, the censors began to pave in Rome, where lome are Itill to be leen, which are
all even, and are paved with irregular (tones j which manner of paving, how it was done,
(lull be mentioned hereaster. But is one is willing to divide the place where men are to walk,
from that which serves sor the use os carts and of cattle, 1 iliould like that the streets
were divided, that on the one and on the other part there were portico's made, through
which the citizens might, under cover, go and do their bulineis, without being molessed
by the sun, by the rains and snow: in which manner are ahnost all the streets of
Padua disposed, a very anticnt city, and celebrated sor learning. Or if no portico's be made
(in which case the ilreets will be more ample and pleasant) some margins are to be mads
vn each side, paved with mattoni, which are baked rtones, thicker and narrower than
bricks, becauie they do not at all ofsend the feet in walking; and 'he middle pan is to be
lest sor the carts and cattle, and to be paved with ssints or any other hard stones.
The streets ought to be somewhat concave in the middle, and il.intiug, that the water
which tails srom the houses may all run to one place, and have a freer courle, whereby the
streets are lest clean, and arc not the causc of bad air; as is the caie when it st< ips in any]
and there putrifies.
CHAP. III.
******
Os the Wa v s without the city.
TH E ways without the city ought to be made ample, commodious, having trees on cither
side, by which travellers may be defended srom the scorching heats of the sun, and
their eyes receive some recreation srom the verdure. The antients took great care os these
way*: that they might theresore always be in good repair, they establiilied proveditors and
curators os them; by whom many of them were made, of which there (till remains some
memory of their beauty and conveniency, although they have been impaired by time. But
the Flamiman and the App'uin are the most smvm" ot'dum all ; the first was made by Flami-
Nius, while he w.is conius, alter the victory he had over the Genoefe. This way began from
the gate Ylumcntana, now called del Popoh, and palling through Tufbany, and through Um&ria,
led to Rimini; srom which city it was asterwards, continued to Bologna by M. Lepjdus, his
collegue; and near the soot of the Alps, by windings, to avoid the sens, he carried it to
Aqutfeia. The Appian took its name srom Appius Claudius, by whom it was made
with much Ik ill and at great cxpence: thence, sor its magnificence and wondersul artifice, it
was by the poets called the Qtjeen os ways. This street began from the Coliseo, and through
the gate Cafena reached to Brindisi, It was continued only to Capua by Appius; from thence
forwards, there is no certainty who made it; and it is the opinion of some, that it was
C^sar: becausc we read in Plutarch, that the care os this way being given to Cjesar,
he spent thereon a great deal o{ money. It was lastly repaired by the Emperor Trajan,
who (as I have laid besore) bv drying up senny places, levelling mountains, filling up valleys,
and by making bridges where it was neceiTary, made the travelling thereon both expeditious
and agreeable. The Via Aurelia is also very much celebrated. It was so called srom Au-
i ■.: i us a Roman citizen, who made it. It began from the gate AttreHa^ now called
San. Pecrotio, and extending itfclf through all the maritime places of lufcany, led to Pija.
The ViaNmentana, the PraenejHna, and the Ubicana} were of no less renown. The
first began srom the gate Fiminalis, now called S. Agnefa, and reached to the c'ny of ho-