Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head2" xml:space="preserve">LEONBATISTA ALBERTI
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          DBLLA ARCHITETTVRA.
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          PROEMIO.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s33" xml:space="preserve">GLI antichi noſtri ci hanno laſciate molte & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s34" xml:space="preserve">uarie arti,
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            che giouano à bene, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s35" xml:space="preserve">commodamente viuere, acqui-
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            ſtate da loro con grãdiſsima induſtria, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s36" xml:space="preserve">dilige@za. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s37" xml:space="preserve">Le
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            quali anchora che da per loro ſteſſe tutte dimoſtrino
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            quaſi che a gara di andare à queſto fine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s38" xml:space="preserve">cioè di giouare
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            grandemente alla generatione humana: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s39" xml:space="preserve">nientedimeno
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            noi conoſciamo che elle hanno un certo che, mediãte il
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            quale ciaſcuna da per ſe, pare che ne prometta particu-
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            lare & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s40" xml:space="preserve">diuerſo frutto. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s41" xml:space="preserve">Imperoche noi certo ſeguitiamo alcune arti per la ne-
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            ceſsità; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s42" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s43" xml:space="preserve">alcune approuianio per la utilità; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s44" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s45" xml:space="preserve">alcune ſono in pregio, perche
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            mediante lo operare di quelle, ſi uiene in cognitione delle coſe che dilettano;
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            </s>
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s47" xml:space="preserve">quali ſiano queſte arti, non fa meſtiero che io dica; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s48" xml:space="preserve">imperoche elle ſono ma-
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            nifeſte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s49" xml:space="preserve">Ma ſe tu andrai bene eſaminando infra il grãdiſsimo numero di tut-
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            te le arti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s50" xml:space="preserve">non ue ne trouerai pur una, che (ſprezzati gli altri) non conſideri & </s>
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            uadia dietro ad alcuni ſuoi particulari & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s52" xml:space="preserve">propij fini. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s53" xml:space="preserve">O ſe finalmẽte ne troue-
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            rai alcuna, laqual ſia tale che tu non poſſa, ò in modo alcuno mancarne, ò che
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            ella pure da per ſe ti arrechi utilità, congiunta con dilettatione & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s54" xml:space="preserve">grãdezza; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s55" xml:space="preserve">nõ
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            debbi (ſecondo il mio parere) dal numero di queſte tor uia la Architettura.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s56" xml:space="preserve">Imperoche ella alcerto, ſe il tutto andrai diligentemente eſaminando, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s57" xml:space="preserve">pu-
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            blicamente & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s58" xml:space="preserve">priuatamente alla humana generatione, è commodiſsima & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s59" xml:space="preserve">ol-
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            tra modo gratisſima: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s60" xml:space="preserve">Et per dignità non infima infra le prime. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s61" xml:space="preserve">Mainanzi ch'io
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            proceda piu oltre, giudico che ſia bene dichiarare chi è quello che io uoglio
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            chiamare Architettore: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s62" xml:space="preserve">Percioche io non ti porrò inanzi un legnaiuolo che
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            tu lo habbi ad aguagliare ad huomini nelle altre ſcienzie eſſercitatiſsimi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s63" xml:space="preserve">colui
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            certo che lauora di mano, ſerue per inſtrumento allo architettore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s64" xml:space="preserve">Architet-
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            tore chiamerò io colui, ilquale ſaprà con certa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s65" xml:space="preserve">marauiglioſa ragione & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s66" xml:space="preserve">re-
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            gola, sì con la mente & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s67" xml:space="preserve">con lo animo diuiſare; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s68" xml:space="preserve">sì con la opera recare afine tutte
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            quelle coſe, lequali mediante mouimenti di peſi, congiugnimenti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s69" xml:space="preserve">ammaſſa-
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            menti di corpi, ſi poſſono con gran dignità accomodare beniſsimo allo uſo
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            de gli huomini. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s70" xml:space="preserve">Et à potere far queſto, biſogna che egli habbia cognitione di
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            coſe ottime & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s71" xml:space="preserve">eccellentiſsime; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s72" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s73" xml:space="preserve">che egli le poſſegga. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s74" xml:space="preserve">Tale adunque ſarà lo
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            Architettore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s75" xml:space="preserve">Ma torno à quel che io laſciai.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s77" xml:space="preserve">sono ſtati alcuni che hanno detto, che la acqua, ò uero il fuoco furono le
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            cagioni principali che fecero, che gli huomini ſi ragunaſſero inſieme: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s78" xml:space="preserve">Ma à
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            noi che conſideriamo la utilità & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s79" xml:space="preserve">neceſsità delle coperture, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s80" xml:space="preserve">delle mura; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s81" xml:space="preserve">facil-
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            mente ſarà perſuaſo, che queſta ſia ſtata la cagione principale di conciliare, & </s>
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            ragunare gli huomini inſieme. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s83" xml:space="preserve">Ma non per queſta ſola cagione ſiamo obliga-
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            ti allo architettore, cioè, perche e' ne habbi fatti i cari & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s84" xml:space="preserve">ſicuri luoghi, doue
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            poſsiamo rifuggendo, defenderci da lo ardore del Sole, da i freddi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s85" xml:space="preserve">dalle tem
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            peſte, (auegna che ciò ſia beneficio non piccolo) ma per queſta ancora, </s>
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