A City in Quest of an Appropriate Antiquity: The Arena of Verona and Its Influence on Architectural Theory in the Early Modern Era

Abstract

the manner of this articulation is obviously very different from those used in Rome, and I for my part would not adopt members such as those of the Amphitheatre in Rome in my works, but would willingly avail my­ self of those of the building in Pola, as they are done in a better manner and are better conceived, and I am sure that this was done by a different architect and that by chance he [i.e. the one of the Coliseum] he was a German, because the members of the Coliseum have something of the German manner.1