ich the very reverend
Grimani, Patriarch of Aquileia, is causing to be made of Istrian
stone, with a most magnificent disregard of expense; the columns are
four palms thick at the foot, forty palms high, and in the Corinthian
Order, and already the whole basement at the foot is built. At
Gambaraie, a place seven miles distant from Venice, on the River
Brenta, the same Palladio has made a very commodious habitation for M.
Niccolo and M. Luigi Foscari, gentlemen of Venice. Another he has
built at Marocco, a place in the Mestrino, for the Chevalier
Mozzenigo; at Piombino one for M. Giorgio Cornaro, one at Montagnana
for the Magnificent M. Francesco Pisani, and another at Cicogna in the
territory of Padua for Count Adovardo da Tiene, a gentleman of
Vicenza. At Udine, in Friuli, he has built one for Signor Floriano
Antimini; at Motto, a township likewise in Friuli, one for the
Magnificent M. Marco Zeno, with a most beautiful court and porticoes
all the way round; and at Fratta, a township in the Polesine, a great
fabric for Signor Francesco Badoaro, with some very beautiful and
fantastic loggie. In like manner, near Asolo, a place in the territory
of Treviso, he has erected a most commodious habitation for the very
reverend S. Daniello Barbaro, Patriarch-Elect of Aquileia, who has
written upon Vitruvius, and for the most illustrious M. Marc'Antonio,
his brother, with such beautiful ordering, that nothing better or
greater can ever be imagined. Among other things, he has made there a
fountain very similar to that which Pope Julius caused to be made at
his Vigna Giulia in Rome; with ornaments of stucco and paintings
everywhere, executed by excellent masters. In Genoa M. Luca
Giustiniano has erected a building with the design of Palladio, which
is held to be very beautiful, as are also all those mentioned above;
but it would have made too long a story to seek to recount the many
particulars of the strange and lovely inventions and fantasies that
are in them. But, since there is soon to come into the light of day a
work of Palladio, in which will be printed two books of ancient
edifices and one book of those that he himself has caused to be built,
I shall say nothing more of him, because this will be enough to make
him known as the excellent architect that he is held to be by all who
see his beautiful works; besides which, being still young and
attending constantly to the studies of his art, every day greater
things may be expec