ABSTRACT

They say that this man has constructed a certain Amphitheatre, a work of wonderful skill, into which whoever is admitted as spectator will be able to discourse on any subject no less fluently than Cicero. I I thought at first that this was a fable until I learned of the thing more fully from Baptista Egnatio. It is said that this Architect has drawn up in certain places whatever about anything is found in Cicero '" Certain orders or grades of figures are disposed ... with stupendous labour and devine skilF ...