Note 311 — Chapter II · THE PERFECTING OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
In his work, De Re Ædificatoria, l. viii. cap. i., there is a definition of a beautiful road: ‘Si modo mare, modo montes, modo lacum fluentem fontesve, modo aridam rupem aut planitiem, modo nemus vallemque exhibebit.’