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)

FOURTH BOOK.
D, the plan of the temple, and os the portico in the part under the fail soot:
B, the angular pilallcrs of the tortile.
Q, are the ether pihisers, that sorm 'the loggia's round it.

CHAP. XXIII.
Of the temple os Vf.sta.
AT T/'-.c//, sixtccn miles distant srom Rome, upon the sall os the river Anieney now
called Teverone, the sollowing round temple is to be secn, which the inhabitants os
thei'e places say was the room os the Sil'illa Tiburtina: which opinion is without any
soundation. However I believe (sor the reasons besorementioned) that it was a temple de-
dicated to the goddess Vesta.
This temple is of the Corinthian order. The intercolumniations are os two diameters.
Its pavement is railed srom the ground the third part os the length os the columns. The
bases have no plinth, that the place to walk in under the portico might be more free and
ample. The columns are as long exactly as the cell is broad, and they incline inwardly
towards the wall os the cell; so that the shast os the column above falls perpendicularly
upon the ssiast os the column below in the inward part.
The capitals are exceedingly well made, and are wrought in the manner os olive leaves;
I theresore believe that it was built in good times. Its door, and the windows, are narrower
in the upper part than in the lower, as Vitruvius teacheth they ought to be made, in
the fixth chapter os the sourth book.
All this temple is os pietra tiburtina covered witli a very light stucco, hence it appears to
be made of marble.
I have made sour plates os this temple.
In the sirst the plan is defigned. Plate 65,
In the second the elevation. PIjtc 66.
In the third are the members os the porcico. P!atc 6?-
A, is the hasement that goes round the temple.
B, the bafe os the columns.
C, the capital.
D, the architrave, thesri^e and cornice.
In the sourth are designed the ornaments os the door and of the windows. Plate 62.
A, are the ornaments os the door.
B, the ornaments os the windows in the part without.
C, the ornaments of the windows in the inward part.
The sascia's oF the ornaments of the door, and os the windows, are disserent srom the
others that are ufually made.

The aflragals, that are under the cimacia's, project beyond the faid cim.wus
I have never Teen in other ornaments.

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