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Giocondo · 1513

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Concerning the composition of sacred buildings, and symmetries, and the measure of the human body. Chapter I.
Concerning the five species of buildings. Chapter II.
Concerning foundations, columns, and their ornament, and architraves, both in solid places and in filled ground. Chapter III.
CHAPTER OF THE FOURTH BOOK.
Concerning the origins and inventions of the three types of columns. Chapter I.
Concerning the ornaments of columns. Chapter II.
Concerning the Doric method. Chapter III.
Concerning the distribution of the interior of cellae and vestibules. Chapter IV.
Concerning the building of temples according to regions. Chapter V.
Concerning the proportions of doors and door-jambs of sacred buildings. Chapter VI.
Concerning the Tuscan proportions of sacred buildings. Chapter VII.
Concerning the arranging of altars of the gods. Chapter VIII.
CHAPTER OF THE FIFTH BOOK.
Concerning the forum. Chapter I.
Concerning the arranging of the treasury, prison, and senate house. Chapter II.
Concerning the theater. Chapter III.
Concerning harmony. Chapter IV. Concerning the vessels of the theater. Chapter V.
Concerning the making of the conformation of the theater. Chapter VI.
Concerning the roof of the portico of the theater. Chapter VII.
Concerning the three types of scenes. Chapter VIII.
Concerning the porticos behind the scene and the walkways. Chapter IX.
Concerning the arrangements and parts of baths. Chapter X.
Concerning the building of palaestras and exercise grounds xystis covered walkways for exercise. Chapter XI.
Concerning harbors and structures to be made in water. Chapter XII.
CHAPTER OF THE SIXTH BOOK.