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have been the letters os the inseription. The cornice has the modiglions squarcd, and one os
these comes dire&lv over the middle of the column. The modiglions that ire in the cornice
os the srontispiccc are directly plumb -, and so tliey ought to be made. In the inward part
os the temple there mull have been portico's, as I have design'd them. Round this temple
there was a court, adorned with columns and slatucs; and sorwards there were two horses,
which are to be icen in the publick way; from which this mount has taken the name of
Monte Cavai/o. The one of them was nude by Praxiteles, and the other by Phidias.
There were very commodious slairs, that ascended to the temple, and in my opinion this
mult have been the greatesl and moil: adorned temple that was in Rome.
I have made six plates of it.
In the first is the plan os the whole edifice, with the back part where the slairs were,Plate 15.
which, ascending one over the other, led to the courts that were on the iides os the temple.
The elevation of this manner of slairs, with the plan, in a laree farm, lias been set down
befbie In th« sirft book, where I have treated of the disserent manners os slairs.
In the lecond is the flank of the temple outwardly. . Plata 26.
In the third is hals of the outward front of the temple. Plate 18
In the sourth is the inward part; and in both these plates a imall part of the ornaments ospiatc 27
the courts maybe seen.
In the fisth is the ssank of the inward part.
In the sixth are the ornaments.
A, Tie architrave, thesrize and the
cornice
C, the base.
F, the capital of the columns os the por-
tico.
Plate 29
Plate 30
D, the bafe os the pi lasers that anjwer to
the columns.
B, the cornice that is round the courts.
F, the acroteria.
CHAP. XIII.
Of the temple o/"Fortuna Virilis.
NEAR the Pons Senatorial, now called that os Santa Maria, is to be seen, almost
intire the sollowing temple, and is the church os Santa Maria Egi'ttiaca. It is not
known lor certain how it was called by the ancients. Some say that it was the temple of
For tuna Virilis; of which one reads, as a wonderful thing, th.it when it was burnt with all that
was in it, only the gilded wooden slatue, that was there, of Servius Tullius was sound sise,
and in no part damaged by the sire.
But because regularly the temples to Fortune were made round, some others have said,
that it was no temple, but the basilica of C. Lucius; grounding this their opinion upon
some letters that have been found there. Which in my judgment cannot be; not only because
this edifice is little, and the basilica's were necesTarily large edifices, by reason of the great
number os people who did business there; as alio, because in basilica's portico's were made in
the part within, and in this temple there are not any vesligia os a portico j I therefore believe
certainly that it was a temple.
Its aspeft is the proslilos, and has hals columns in the walls of the cell in the part with-
out, that accompany those of the portico, and have the same ornaments. Hence to those that
in flank, it affords the aspect of the alato a torno. The intercolumniations are of two
diameters and a quarter, so that its manner is the sislilos. The pavement os the temple is
railed from the ground six soot and an hals, and one ascends to it by sleps, to which the
baiements, which support the whole fabric sorm a poggio. The columns are of the Ionic
order. The bale is Attic, although it seems that it ought to have been Ionic, as well as
B b the
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have been the letters os the inseription. The cornice has the modiglions squarcd, and one os
these comes dire&lv over the middle of the column. The modiglions that ire in the cornice
os the srontispiccc are directly plumb -, and so tliey ought to be made. In the inward part
os the temple there mull have been portico's, as I have design'd them. Round this temple
there was a court, adorned with columns and slatucs; and sorwards there were two horses,
which are to be icen in the publick way; from which this mount has taken the name of
Monte Cavai/o. The one of them was nude by Praxiteles, and the other by Phidias.
There were very commodious slairs, that ascended to the temple, and in my opinion this
mult have been the greatesl and moil: adorned temple that was in Rome.
I have made six plates of it.
In the first is the plan os the whole edifice, with the back part where the slairs were,Plate 15.
which, ascending one over the other, led to the courts that were on the iides os the temple.
The elevation of this manner of slairs, with the plan, in a laree farm, lias been set down
befbie In th« sirft book, where I have treated of the disserent manners os slairs.
In the lecond is the flank of the temple outwardly. . Plata 26.
In the third is hals of the outward front of the temple. Plate 18
In the sourth is the inward part; and in both these plates a imall part of the ornaments ospiatc 27
the courts maybe seen.
In the fisth is the ssank of the inward part.
In the sixth are the ornaments.
A, Tie architrave, thesrize and the
cornice
C, the base.
F, the capital of the columns os the por-
tico.
Plate 29
Plate 30
D, the bafe os the pi lasers that anjwer to
the columns.
B, the cornice that is round the courts.
F, the acroteria.
CHAP. XIII.
Of the temple o/"Fortuna Virilis.
NEAR the Pons Senatorial, now called that os Santa Maria, is to be seen, almost
intire the sollowing temple, and is the church os Santa Maria Egi'ttiaca. It is not
known lor certain how it was called by the ancients. Some say that it was the temple of
For tuna Virilis; of which one reads, as a wonderful thing, th.it when it was burnt with all that
was in it, only the gilded wooden slatue, that was there, of Servius Tullius was sound sise,
and in no part damaged by the sire.
But because regularly the temples to Fortune were made round, some others have said,
that it was no temple, but the basilica of C. Lucius; grounding this their opinion upon
some letters that have been found there. Which in my judgment cannot be; not only because
this edifice is little, and the basilica's were necesTarily large edifices, by reason of the great
number os people who did business there; as alio, because in basilica's portico's were made in
the part within, and in this temple there are not any vesligia os a portico j I therefore believe
certainly that it was a temple.
Its aspeft is the proslilos, and has hals columns in the walls of the cell in the part with-
out, that accompany those of the portico, and have the same ornaments. Hence to those that
in flank, it affords the aspect of the alato a torno. The intercolumniations are of two
diameters and a quarter, so that its manner is the sislilos. The pavement os the temple is
railed from the ground six soot and an hals, and one ascends to it by sleps, to which the
baiements, which support the whole fabric sorm a poggio. The columns are of the Ionic
order. The bale is Attic, although it seems that it ought to have been Ionic, as well as
B b the