Palladio, Andrea: The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture (Band4): Wherein the ancient temples that are in Rome are described and figured and some others that are in Italy and out of Italy (London, 1738)

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FOURTH BOOK.

the capital. It is not, however, sound in any edifice, that the ancients made use os the-
Ionic, del'cribcd by Vitruvius. The columns are fluted, and|have twenty sour channels
The voltita's of the capital are oval; and the capitals that are in the angles os the portico'
and os the temple, make a sront two ways: which I do not remember to have seen ant
where else. But becaule it has appeared to me a beautiful and graceful invention, I have
made use os it in many sabrics ; and how it is made, will appear in the ielign. The or-
naments os the door os the temple are very beautiful, and in beautiful proportion. All this
temple is made os peperino, and is covered with stucco.
1 have made three plates os it.
Plate 31. In the first is the plan with somc ornaments.
H, tlx iasi j
I, the dado Co/'the basements that support the whole sabric,
K, the cimaeium )
L, the bafe os the columns upon t/je basement.
F, the ornaments os the door.
C, the scroll os the faid door in sront.
PUte 32. jN the second is the front os the temple.
M, the architrave, thesrize, and the cornice.
O, thejront "J
P, the plan ( , i ■ i
Q, the flank s °s'he «*"*•
R, thess.'ast without the valuta J
Plate 33- In the third is the flank os the temple.
M, part of thesrize, that goes with thofe carvings round the whole temple.
S, the plan os the angular capitals, by which it may eafily be known bow they are »
be made.

CHAP. XIV.

Of the temple c/Vesta,
FFOLLOWING the bank along the Tykr, near the said temple is found another round
temple, which is at prelent called St. Stcsatw. They say that it was built by Numa
Pompilius, and dedicated to the goddess Vest a ; and he would have it os a round form,
in resemblance of the element os the earth, by which human generation is subsilted, and os
which they lay that Vesta was the goddess.
Tins temple isos the Corinthian order. The intercohtmniations are of one diameter and
an half. The columns with the bale and capital, are eleven teste in length. (By a teste
is understood the diameter of the soot of the column, as has been said elsewhere.) The
basesare without zoccolo or dado ; but the step whereon they rcit, serves for it, which was
dn;iL- by the architect who ordered it, that the entrance into the portico might be lets
incumbered, the manner bang thick os columns.
TnEcella, computing also the thickness of the walls, has as much in diameter as the
columns are long.
Thk. capitals are carved in the manner os olive leaves. The cornice Js not to be seen,
but it has been added by me in the design. Under the sossit of the portico there are very
beautisul compartments. The door and the windows have very beautiful and plain orna-
ments. Under the portico, and in the inward part of the temple, there are cimacia's that
lupport the windows, and go quite round, affording the aspect of a basement, upon which
the wall is sounded, and unon which resls the tribuna. This wall in the outward part,
that

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