Alberti, Leone Battista, Architecture, 1755

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              rent Columns and Statues, in making an Image
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              of that God which was continually turning
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              round to face the Sun. </s>
              <s>And there was ſome­
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              what yet more wonderful than this in the Tem­
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              ple of
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              Diana
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              at
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              Epheſus;
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              which was,
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              Cupid's
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              Dart hanging upon nothing. </s>
              <s>For ſuch kind
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              of Ornaments no other certain Rule can be
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              given, but that they be ſet in decent Places,
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              where they may be viewed with Wonder and
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              Reverence.</s>
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              <s>CHAP. XIV.</s>
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              Of the firſt Original of Baſiliques, their Porticoes and different Members, and
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              wherein they differ from Temples.
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              <s>It is certain that at firſt Baſiliques were no­
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              thing but Places where the Magiſtrates uſed
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              to meet to adminiſter Juſtice under Shelter,
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              and the Tribunal was added to give the greater
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              Air of Majeſty to the Structure. </s>
              <s>Afterwards
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              in order to enlarge them, the principal Roof
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              being found not ſufficient, Porticoes were add­
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              ed on each Side, firſt a ſingle, and in Time a
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              double one. </s>
              <s>Others acroſs the Tribunal made
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              a Nave, which we ſhall call the Juſticiary Nave,
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              as being the Place for the Concourſe of the
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              Notaries, Sollicitors and Advocates, and joined
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              this Nave to the other Iſles after the Manner of
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              the Letter T. </s>
              <s>The Porticoes without were
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              ſuppoſed to be added afterwards for the Con­
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              venience of Servants: So that the Baſilique
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              conſiſts of Naves or Iſles, and of Porticoes: But
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              as the Baſilique ſeems to partake of the Na­
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              ture of the Temple, it has claimed moſt of the
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              Ornaments belonging to the Temple, but ſtill
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              in ſuch a Manner as to ſeem rather to imitate
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              than to pretend to equal it in Embelliſhments.
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              <s>It is raiſed above the Level of the Ground, like
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              the Temple, but an eighth Part leſs; that ſo
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              it may yield to the Temple, as to the more
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              honourable Structure: And indeed none of its
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              other Ornaments muſt be allowed the ſame So­
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              lemnity as thoſe uſed in a Temple. </s>
              <s>Moreover
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              there is this further Difference between the
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              Baſilique and the Temple, that the Iſles in the
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              former muſt be clear and open, and its Win­
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              dows perſectly lightſome, upon account of the
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              ſometimes tumultuous Crowd of Litigants, and
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              for the Conveniency of examining and ſub­
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              ſcribing to Writings; and it would be very
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              proper, if it could be ſo contrived, that ſuch as
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              came to ſeek either their Clients or their Pa­
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              trons, might immediately find them out; For
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              which Reaſon the Columns ought to be ſet at
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              a greater Diſtance from each other; and there­
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              fore thoſe that ſupport Arches are the moſt
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              proper, though ſuch as bear Architraves are
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              not to be wholly rejected. </s>
              <s>Thus we may de­
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              fine the Baſilique to be a clear ſpacious Walk
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              covered with a Roof, with Porticoes or Iſles on
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              the Inſide; becauſe that which is without Iſles
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              ſeems to me to have more in it of the Court
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              of Juſtice or Senate-houſe, whereof we ſhall
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              ſpeak in due Time, than of the Baſilique. </s>
              <s>The
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              Platform of the Baſilique ſhould be twice as
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              long as broad; and the chief Iſle, which is that
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              in the Middle, and the croſs one, which we
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              have called the Juſticiary, ſhould be entirely
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              clear and free for Walkers. </s>
              <s>If it is to have on­
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              ly one ſingle Iſle on each Side, without the
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              Juſticiary Nave, you may order your Propor­
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              tions as follows: Divide the Breadth of the
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              Platform into nine Parts, whereof five of them
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              muſt be allowed to the middle Iſle, and two to
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              each Portico or ſide Iſle. </s>
              <s>The Length too
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              muſt be divided into nine Parts, one of which
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              muſt be given to the Sweep of the Tribunal,
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              and two to the Breadth or Entrance into that
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              Tribunal. </s>
              <s>But if beſides the ſide Iſle you
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              would have a Juſticiary Nave, then divide the
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              Breadth of the Platform only into four Parts,
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              giving two to the middle Iſle, and one to each
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              ſide Iſle; and divide the Length as follows:
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              Give one twelfth Part of it to the Sweep of the
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              Tribunal, two twelfths and an half to the
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              Breadth of its Entrance, and let the Breadth of
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              the Juſticiary Nave be the ſixth Part of the
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              Length of the whole Platform. </s>
              <s>But if you are
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              to have not only the Juſticiary Nave, but double
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              Iſles beſides; then divide the Breadth of the
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              Platform into ten Parts, giving four to the
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              middle Iſle, and three on each Side to be di­
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              vided equally for the ſide Iſles, and divide the
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              Length into twenty Parts, giving one and a
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              half to the Sweep of the Tribunal, and three
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              and one third to its Entrance, and allowing on­
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              ly three Parts to the Breadth of the Juſticiary
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              Nave. </s>
              <s>The Walls of the Baſilique need not
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              be ſo thick as thoſe of the Temple; becauſe
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