Sebastiano Serlio · Third Book: Of Antiquities
A scene between Fondi and Terracina
THE Figure vnder this, marked A. I thinke to haue bene the Scene of a Theatre, it standeth betwéene Fondi and Torracina; but there is so little to be séene of the Theatre, that I measured it not: neither did I measure this part of the Scene, which is more decayed then it sheweth here: but as I fote on horse-back, I made a slight draught thereof. The Doore marked B. standeth at Spolet•, and is very olde, made after the Dorica maner, which likewise I did not measure, but made onely the inuention and forme thereof. The Gate marked C. is betweene Foligus and Rome, out in the stréet: and although it séeme a licentious and vnséemely thing, that the Arch should breake the passage of the Architraue, Fréese and Cornice; yet neuerthelesse, the inuention disliked mee not. I measured onely the bredth and the l•n•th, the which I found to bee eighteene foote, and one and twenty foote and a halfe. I thinke it had béene a small Temple, or a Sepulchre; but be what it will, it sheweth well to a mans sight.
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