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C FI A P. XIX.
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Os!he a?:!kr.i C \ s i l i c a'i -
1 7'ORMERLY those places were called basilica's, in which the judge*, (at under cover to
X/ adminirter iuslice, and wliere somctimes great and important assairs were debated.
Hence we read, that the tribunes of the people canted a column to be taken away, which
obsiruotcd their teats t'rom the Bafilica Portia (in which in (Vice was adminitter'd that stood
near the temple of Romulus and Remus at Rome, and which now is the church of San.
Ccjhio e Damiiino. Of all theantient basilica's, that ofPAuxus A^milius was very much
celebrated, and reckoned among the marvels of the city. It slood between the temple
of Saturn and that os Faustina, on which he spent one thousand five hundred talents,
given him by Caesar, which amount, by computation, to about nine hundred thou-
sand crowns. They ought to be made adjoining to the piazze, as was oblcrved in
the abovesaid, which were both in the Fornm Romanian and facing the warmed
region of the heaven, that the merchants, and those that had law-suits, might in winter-
time, without being incommoded by the bad weather, go and remain there without inconve-
nience. They ought not to be made narrower than one third part, nor wider than the half
os the length, is the nature os the place does not hinder it, or is one is not compelled to al-
ter the measure of this compartment.
Ok this kind of edifice there is not the lead antient vestigtum remaining: wheresore, ac-
cording to what Vitruv ius mentions in the above-cited place, I have made the sollowing
designs; in which the basilica, in the space in the middle, that is, within the columns, is
two squares long.
The portico's that are on the sides, and in the part where the entrance is, are in breadth
the third part of the space in the middle. Their columns are as long as they arc broad, and
maybe made os any order one pleases. I have not made a portico in the part opposite to
the entrance, becausc a large nich seems to me to suit there very well, made of a legment
of a circle less than a semicircle, in which the tribunal os the praetor, or ot the judges, may
be, if they are manv, to which there mutt be an ascent by Heps, that it may have the
greater majesty and grandeur. I do not deny, neverthcless, but that portico's may also be
made all round them, as I have done in the basilica's reprcsented in the designs of the piazze.
Through the portico's one goes to the ssairs that arc on the sides of the laid nich, which lead to
the upper portico's. Thcse upper portico's have their columns the fourth part Icss than those
below. The poggio, or the pedestal, that is between the upper and lower columns, might
to be made in height one sourth part less than the length os the columns above, that thofe
that walk in the upper portico's, may not be seen by those that do business in the basilica.
A basilica at Fano, was ordered by Vitruv iu-. with other compartments, which by the
measures which he gives the laid place, one may comprehend to haw been an edifice of very
great dignity and beauty. I would have inserted the designs of it hero, is they had not
been done, with the utmost diligence, by the rnost reverend Barharo in his Vitrvoitts.
Or the sollowing designs, the firll is the plan, the second is part of the elevation.
Pa RTs of the plan.
A, lie entrance into the bafilica. Plate j-.
B, Is the place sor the tribunal oppofite to the entrance,
C, Are the portico's rotunl it.
D, Are the sairs that lead to the parts above.
E, Are the 'places sor thejilth.
Parts os the elevation.
F, The profile os the place, made there to place the tribunal oppofite to the entrance. pj^a 18.
G, The columns of the portico's below.
H, Is the poggio, in height a sourth part lefs than the columns os the upper portico's.
I, The columns os the (aid upper portico's.
C IJ A P.
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C FI A P. XIX.
'* ¥ ::,
Os!he a?:!kr.i C \ s i l i c a'i -
1 7'ORMERLY those places were called basilica's, in which the judge*, (at under cover to
X/ adminirter iuslice, and wliere somctimes great and important assairs were debated.
Hence we read, that the tribunes of the people canted a column to be taken away, which
obsiruotcd their teats t'rom the Bafilica Portia (in which in (Vice was adminitter'd that stood
near the temple of Romulus and Remus at Rome, and which now is the church of San.
Ccjhio e Damiiino. Of all theantient basilica's, that ofPAuxus A^milius was very much
celebrated, and reckoned among the marvels of the city. It slood between the temple
of Saturn and that os Faustina, on which he spent one thousand five hundred talents,
given him by Caesar, which amount, by computation, to about nine hundred thou-
sand crowns. They ought to be made adjoining to the piazze, as was oblcrved in
the abovesaid, which were both in the Fornm Romanian and facing the warmed
region of the heaven, that the merchants, and those that had law-suits, might in winter-
time, without being incommoded by the bad weather, go and remain there without inconve-
nience. They ought not to be made narrower than one third part, nor wider than the half
os the length, is the nature os the place does not hinder it, or is one is not compelled to al-
ter the measure of this compartment.
Ok this kind of edifice there is not the lead antient vestigtum remaining: wheresore, ac-
cording to what Vitruv ius mentions in the above-cited place, I have made the sollowing
designs; in which the basilica, in the space in the middle, that is, within the columns, is
two squares long.
The portico's that are on the sides, and in the part where the entrance is, are in breadth
the third part of the space in the middle. Their columns are as long as they arc broad, and
maybe made os any order one pleases. I have not made a portico in the part opposite to
the entrance, becausc a large nich seems to me to suit there very well, made of a legment
of a circle less than a semicircle, in which the tribunal os the praetor, or ot the judges, may
be, if they are manv, to which there mutt be an ascent by Heps, that it may have the
greater majesty and grandeur. I do not deny, neverthcless, but that portico's may also be
made all round them, as I have done in the basilica's reprcsented in the designs of the piazze.
Through the portico's one goes to the ssairs that arc on the sides of the laid nich, which lead to
the upper portico's. Thcse upper portico's have their columns the fourth part Icss than those
below. The poggio, or the pedestal, that is between the upper and lower columns, might
to be made in height one sourth part less than the length os the columns above, that thofe
that walk in the upper portico's, may not be seen by those that do business in the basilica.
A basilica at Fano, was ordered by Vitruv iu-. with other compartments, which by the
measures which he gives the laid place, one may comprehend to haw been an edifice of very
great dignity and beauty. I would have inserted the designs of it hero, is they had not
been done, with the utmost diligence, by the rnost reverend Barharo in his Vitrvoitts.
Or the sollowing designs, the firll is the plan, the second is part of the elevation.
Pa RTs of the plan.
A, lie entrance into the bafilica. Plate j-.
B, Is the place sor the tribunal oppofite to the entrance,
C, Are the portico's rotunl it.
D, Are the sairs that lead to the parts above.
E, Are the 'places sor thejilth.
Parts os the elevation.
F, The profile os the place, made there to place the tribunal oppofite to the entrance. pj^a 18.
G, The columns of the portico's below.
H, Is the poggio, in height a sourth part lefs than the columns os the upper portico's.
I, The columns os the (aid upper portico's.
C IJ A P.
CH^P-