Andrea Palladio · The Fourth Book
Chapter XXII. Of the Temple whose vestigia are to be seen near the church of Santo Sebastiano, upon the Via Appia
WITHOUT the gate of St. Sebastian, which formerly was called the Appia gate, from the most famous way (which was with wonderful art and expence made by Appius Claudius) are to be seen the vestigia of the following edifice, near to the said church of St. Sebastian. By what can be comprehended of it, it was all of baked stone.
Of the loggia’s that are round it there is fill a part standing. The entrance into the said cortile had double loggia’s; and on each side of the said entrance there were rooms, that mull have served for the use of the priests.
The temple was in the middle of the cortile. The part that is to be seen, and is raised from the ground, upon which was the floor of the temple, is most solid work, and receives light only from the doors, and from six small windows that are in the niches, and therefore it is somewhat dark, as all the antient temples are. In the fore part of this temple, opposite to the entrance into the cortile, there are the foundations of the portico; but the columns have been taken away. I have nevertheless placed them of the bigness, and distance, that by the said foundations may be known they were of. And because none of the ornaments of this temple are to be seen, I have made one plate only of it, in which the plan is designed. 64. A, is the floor of the temple, and of the portico from which the columns must have
begun to rise.
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