A note on the Arch dei Borsari

FOr that our Author before, speaketh of an Arch triumphant in Verona, called Dei Bursari, which he termeth to be barbarous and confused of parts and members, as (according to the writing of Vitruuius of good Antiquities) in effect it is: Neuerthelesse, for that Iohannes Carottus (which our Author alledgeth) hath set it downe for an ornament of Verona, in his booke of Antiquities, much better, and with more deliberation then all yᵉ rest of the Figures by him made (for in trueth, yᵉ rest are very grosse: Therefore I thought it good to shew it here to the curious Reader that he may sée and also note (by Vitruuius rule aforesaid) what is good or ill in it, which may peraduenture please some of this countrey better then another, because they vse to séeke for much worke in their Architecture. And for yᵗ this Figure was too great in forme, therfore I haue here set downe but the halfe; and you must conceaue the other side, that is, an Arch with windowes and other ornaments, like these: the foot of Verona, wherwith this building is measured, standeth here on the sides in halfe proportion: of which foot, one small standeth in the Pedestal, vnder yᵉ great Columne; whereby the measure is to be conceyted: for the sayd Carottus giues no other warrant of all his Figures (but onely of the Figure of the wonderfull spectacle, as hee termeth it) with the Theater aboue it: but aboue all, with the goings vp to the hill, where a Temple of Ianus standeth, as our Author sheweth afterward in Folio l. 3. in this present Booke. Of this building, Carottus saith more then of all the rest: and for that I may satisfie the Reader at full, of all that is sayd in this Booke, therefore I haue caused this figure to bée printed alone, because it was too great, and (in my opinion) too grose, to set hereby. Vale.