The Temple of Piety

THis Building is called Templum pietatis, it is made altogether of a kind of rough stone, which is there called Tiburtium, after the Riuer of Tiber; but for that the stone is spongie and ful of holes, it was couered all ouer with a kind of Plaister called Stucco, it is very ruinous, for therein you sée no proportion of windowes: neuerthesse, I haue placed them in the ground where I thought them fittest to stand. This Building is measured with an other Elle, which is deuided into 60. minutes; & the line through the middle of the ground of the Temple is the third part of the said Elle: First, the Columes are an Elle & 18. minutes thicke; the intercolumnes 3. Elles and 14. minutes, the bredth of the gates is 4. Elles and 14. minutes and a half, the thicknes of the wall is one Elle and 20. minutes, the length of yᵉ Temple is 18. Elles and 20. minutes, the bredth of the Temple is 8. Ells and 30. minutes: the Gallery round about the Temple was flat roofed with foure square pearches: but how the broad place before the Temple was roofed I cannot cōceaue, because it is so ruinous. The columnes of this Temple haue no Bases nor any Cinthie, or Proiecture, but stand bare vpon their ground, & well made of Tiburtium, and couered ouer with Stuces. This Temple had the frōtespiee both behind and before.

The height of the Columnes with the Capitall is 3. minutes lesse then 10. Elles, the thicknesse below (as I sayd before) is 1. Elle and 18. minutes; and the thicknes aboue is 1. Elle and 15. minutes. The height of the Capital is 47. minutes, but the bozel & the rinetic of the Columnes are also reckoned with it; the height of the Architraue is 36. minutes, the height of the Fréeses is 1. Elle 165. minutes. The Cornice is 1. Elle & 8. minutes high, & from thence vpwards, the Timpanum is two Ells and two minutes high. The other particular members marked with yᵉ caracters are in greater forme, and accordingly propertioned.