The first book of architecture, by Andrea Palladio. Translated out of Italian: with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Dr Le Muet architect to the French King: translated out of French by G.R. Also rules and demonstrations, with several designs for the framing of any manner of roofs either above pitch or under pitch, whether square or bevel, never published before. With designes of floors of variety of small pieces of wood, lately made in the pallace of the Queen Mother, at Sommerset-House; a curiosity never practiced in England before.

CHAP. XIX. Of Pedestalls.

HItherto I have discoursed (what to me seemed convenient) of Walls and their Ornaments; and in particular, touch∣ing the Pedestals which may be applied to every Order; But because it appears that the Ancients had not a regard to make the Pedestal bigger for the one Order then for another, although this part much adds to the Beauty and Ornament, when it is made with discretion and proportion to the other parts; To the end that the Architects may take notice and serve them∣selves upon occasion, and know that they made them sometimes square, that is to say, as long as broad, as in the Arch Di Lioni, at Verona. And these I have assigned to the Dorick Order, be∣cause it requires Solidity; Sometimes they are made taking the measure from the light of the Arch, as in the Arch of Titus at Sancta Maria Nova in Rome, and in that of Trajan on the gate of Ancona, where the Pedestal is half the height of the light of the Arch; and of that kind of Pedestal I have put to the Ionick Order; and sometimes they took the measure from the height of the Column, as is seen at Susa, a City scituate at the foot of the Mountain which divides Italy from France, In an Arch made to the honor of Augustus Caesar, and in the Arch of Pola, a City of Dalmatia, and in the Amphitheatre of Rome; In the Ionick and Corinthian Order, in which buildings the Pedestal is the fourth part of the height of the Column, as I have made in the Corinthian Order. In Verona, in the Arch Di Castel Vecchio, which is very beautiful, the Pedestal is a third of the height of the Column, as I have put in the Composita Order; And these are the handsomest formes of Pedestals, and have the best proporti∣on with their other parts: And when Vitruvius discoursing of Theatres makes mention of the Poggio, you may know that the

Poggio is the same with the Pedestal, which is the third of the length of the Column put for Ornament of the Scene; But of Pedestals which exceed a third of the Column, such are seen at Rome in the Arch of Constantine, where the Pedestals are two parts and half of the height of the Column; And almost in all the Ancient Pedestals, the Bases are observed to have been made twice as big as the Cimacium, as is seen in my Book of Arches.