Alberti, Leone Battista
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Architecture
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1755
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>CHAP. VI.</
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Of the principle Ways belonging to the City, and the Methods of adorning the
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Haven, Gates, Bridges, Arches, Croſs-ways and Squares.
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>It is now Time to make our Entrance into
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the City; but as there are ſome Ways
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both within and without the Town which are
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much more eminent than the common Sort,
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as thoſe which lead to the Temple, the Baſi
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lique, or the Place for publick Spectacles, we
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ſhall firſt ſay ſomething of theſe. </
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that
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Heliogabalus
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paved theſe broader and no
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bler Ways with
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Macedonian
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Marble and Por
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phiry. </
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Street in
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Bubaſtus,
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a City of
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Ægypt,
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which led
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to the Temple; for it ran thro' the Market
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place, and was paved with very fine Stone, was
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four Jugera, or four hundred and eighty Foot
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broad, and bordered on each Side with ſtately
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Trees.
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Ariſteas
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tells us, that in
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Feruſalem
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there were ſome very beautiful Streets, tho'
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narrow, thro' which the Magiſtrates and Nobles
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only were allowed to paſs, to the Intent chiefly
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that the ſacred Things which they carried,
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might not be polluted by the Touch of any
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Thing profane.
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Plato
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highly celebrates a Way
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all planted with Cypreſs Trees which led from
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Gnoſſus
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to the Cave and Temple of
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Fupiter.
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I
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find that the
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Romans
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had two Streets of this
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Sort, extremely noble and beautiful, one from
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the Gate to the Church of St.
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Paul,
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fifteen
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Stadia, or a Mile and ſeven Furlongs in Length,
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and the other from the Bridge to the Church
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of St.
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Peter,
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two thouſand five hundred Foot
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long, and all covered with a Portico of Co
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lumns of Marble, with a Roof of Lead. </
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Ornaments are extremely proper for Ways of
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this Nature. </
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more common Highways. </
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and Boundary of all Highways, whether within
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or without the City, unleſs I am miſtaken, is
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the Gate for thoſe by Land, and the Haven for
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thoſe by Sea: Unleſs we will take notice of
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ſubterraneous Ways, of the Nature of thoſe
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which we are told were at
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Thebes
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in
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Ægypt,
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thro' which their Kings could lead an Army
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unknown to any of the Citizens, or thoſe which
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I find to have been pretty numerous near
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Pre
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neſte,
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in the ancient
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Latium,
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dug under Ground
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from the Top of the Hill to the Level of the
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Plain, with wonderful Art; in one of which
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we are told, that
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Marius
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periſhed when cloſe
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preſſed by the Siege. </
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Author of the Life of
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Apollonius,
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of a very
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wonderful Paſſage made by a Lady of
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Media
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at
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Babylon,
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under the River, and arched with
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Stone and Bitumen, thro' which ſhe could go
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dryſhod from the Palace to a Country Houſe,
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on the other Side of the River. </
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not obliged to believe all that the
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Greek
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Wri
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ters tell us. </
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Gates are adorned in the ſame Manner as tri
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umphal Arches, of which anon. </
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is adorned by broad Porticoes, raiſed ſomewhat
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above the Level of the Ground, by a ſtately
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Temple, lofty and beautiful, with ſpacious
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Squares before it, and the Mouth of the Ha
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ven itſelf by huge Statues, ſuch as were for
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merly to be ſeen in ſeveral Places, and particu
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larly at
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Rhodes,
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where
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Herod
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is ſaid to have
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erected three. </
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the Mole at
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Samos,
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which they ſay was an
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hundred and twenty Foot high, and ran out
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two Furlongs into the Sea. </
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Works muſt greatly adorn the Haven, eſpeci
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ally if they are maſterly wrought, and not of
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baſe Materials. </
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beſides being handſomely paved and cleanly
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kept, will be rendered much more noble, if
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the Doors are built all after the ſame Model,
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and the Houſes on each Side ſtand in an even
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Line, and none higher than another. </
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of the Street which are principally to be ad
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orned, are theſe: The Bridge, the Croſs-ways,
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and the Place for publick Spectactles, which
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laſt is nothing elſe but an open Place, with </
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Seats built about it. </
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Bridge, as being one of the chief Parts of the
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Street. </
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the Arches and the Pavement, and alſo the
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Street in the Middle for the Paſſage of Cattle,
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and the raiſed Cauſeways on each Side for the
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better Sort of Citizens, and the Sides or Rail,
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and in ſome Places Houſes too, as in that moſt
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noble Bridge called
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Adrian
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's
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Mole,
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a Work
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never to be forgotten, the very Skeleton where
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of, if I may ſo call it, I can never behold
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without a Sort of Reverence and Awe. </
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