Alberti, Leone Battista, Architecture, 1755

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              <s>THE
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              ARCHITECTURE
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              OF
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              Leone Batiſta Alberti.
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              <s>BOOK I. CHAP. I.</s>
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              Of Deſigns; their Value and Rules.
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              <s>Being to treat of the
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              Deſigns of Edifices, we
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              ſhall collect and tran­
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              ſcribe into this our Work,
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              all the moſt curious and
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              uſeſul Obſervations left
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              us by the Ancients, and
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              which they gathered in
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              the actual Execution of
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              theſe Works; and to theſe we ſhall join what­
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              ever we ourſelves may have diſcovered by our
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              Study, Application and Labour, that ſeems like­
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              ly to be of Uſe. </s>
              <s>But as we deſire, in the hand­
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              ling this difficult, knotty, and commonly ob­
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              ſcure Subject, to be as clear and intelligible as
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              poſſible; we ſhall, according to our Cuſtom,
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              explain what the Nature of our Subject is;
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              which will ſhew the Origin of the important
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              Matters that we are to write of, at their very
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              Fountain-Head, and enable us to expreſs the
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              Things that follow, in a more eaſy and per­
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              ſpicuous Style. </s>
              <s>We ſhall therefore firſt lay
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              down, that the whole Art of Building conſiſts
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              in the Deſign, and in the Structure. </s>
              <s>The
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              whole Force and Rule of the Deſign, conſiſts
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              in a right and exact adapting and joining to­
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              gether the Lines and Angles which compoſe
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              and form the Face of the Building. </s>
              <s>It is the
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              Property and Buſineſs of the Deſign to appoint
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              to the Edifice and all its Parts their proper
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              Places, determinate Number, juſt Proportion
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              and beautiful Order; ſo that the whole Form
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              of the Structure be proportionable. </s>
              <s>Nor has
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              this Deſign any thing that makes it in its Na­
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              ture inſeparable from Matter; for we ſee that
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              the ſame Deſign is in a Multitude of Buildings,
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              which have all the ſame Form, and are exact­
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              ly alike as to the Situation of their Parts and
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              the Diſpoſition of their Lines and Angles; and
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              we can in our Thought and Imagination con­
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              trive perfect Forms of Buildings entirely ſepa­
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              rate from Matter, by ſettling and regulating in
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              a certain Order, the Diſpoſition and Conjunc­
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              tion of the Lines and Angles. </s>
              <s>Which being </s>
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