A villa at Monte Mario

Wyll out Reme, at Mente Mario, there is a very fayre place, with all things belonging to a place of pleasure, of which particular parts I will rather refrayne to speake, then not shew them sufficiently, onely I will speake of a Gallery, with the Facies thereof, made by an excellent workman Raphael Durbin, who hath made diuers appertements and beginnings to oth•r workes, as the Courtill, although that it is fouresquare, yet he had fashioned it round, as the foundation partly sheweth. That Vestibul•n marked A. and the two places, B. and C. stand not in such forme, but I haue placed them there to fill vp the ground: for the part C. endeth in an hill, as also the part E. but in the other side of the Gallery m•ked F. there is no halfe Circle, and that was left out, not to pinch some of the appertements, but to accompany other members by it. The order of this Gallery is very fayre: the roofe whereof is concordickly, altred: for that the andole part is with a round tribune; and those two on the sides are crosse-wise. In which roofe, and also in the walles, •anvan Vdenon hath made wonderfull great pieces of paynted worke: so that regarding the fayre and excellent workemanship of Architecture, with the beautifying of paynting, together with diuers ancient Images, this Gallery may well be called, one of the fayrest that euer was made. And whereas it is spoken of an halfe Circle which doth not answere the rest, neither the workeman not willing to leaue it vndecked or vnfurnished, his Disciple Iulio Romano, in the Facie thereof, paynted the great Gyant Poliphemus, with many Satyres round about: which worke, Cardinall de Medicis, that after was Pope, by the name of Clement, caused to be made. The measure of this Gallery I will not set downe, but the inuention shall suffice the workeman, for that all things are proportioned according to the great; and hereafter you shall see it made vpright, together with the Facie of the Gallery, but the Niches or hollow seates on the sides are not there.

B• thee part following, marked B. A. you may conceiue the roofe of the aforesayd Gallery, the sayrenesse whereof consis•eth march in the corner marked ✚ (the which giueth to vnderstand also the thrée others, being well placed) and s•ew well in the heading vp of the tribune in the middle, going alwayes binding with the duplication of Pillars, to each Facie of the Pilasters: which Pillars (in regard the Coronas remayne whole) make not the Pilaster shew b•e, but rather •ch bre k• o• Pilasters into two Pillars, maketh a large seeing vpwards, and stands (neuerthelesse) in manner and place • a fra•e Pillar: for the Base of the sayd Pilasters follow also. And for that in the Figure following in the Pilaster, there is but one Pillar with a peece shewed, yet to make it better to be vnderstood, is, that each Facie of the Pilasters within the Gallery is to be deuided into thrée, of the which a man may make two flat Pillars, and at the corners one Intercolumne: so that (as it is sayd) although there are two flat Pillars with one Intercolumne, yet, altogether, it is but one Pilaster.