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          <head xml:id="echoid-head133" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Dello adornare gli ſpettacoli, i Teatri, i loghi da correre, & quanta ſia la utilitd
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          loro Cap. VII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11082" xml:space="preserve">VEngo hora a trattare de gli Spettacoli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11083" xml:space="preserve">Diceſi che Epimenide quello che
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            dormì in quella cauerna cinquantaſette anni nel murare che faceuano
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-303-01" xlink:href="note-303-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            gli Athenieſi vno Spettacolo, diceua villania a quei Cittadini, dicendo
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            voi non ſapete ancora di quante morti ſia per eſſer’queſto luogo cagione? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11084" xml:space="preserve">che
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            ſe voi lo ſapeſſe, lo sbranereſte con i denti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11085" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11086" xml:space="preserve">io non ardiſco di biaſmare i no-
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            ſtri Ponteſici, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11087" xml:space="preserve">quegli che hanno a dare eſempio ad altri, che con buono cõſi
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            glio habbino leuato via la vſanza de gli Spettacoli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11088" xml:space="preserve">Lodono Moiſe che vole-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-303-02" xlink:href="note-303-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            ualche tutti i ſuoi popoliſiragunaſsino in vn’Tempio ſolo, ne dì Solemni; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11089" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11090" xml:space="preserve">
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            che in certi determinati tempi mangiaſsino tutti inſieme. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11091" xml:space="preserve"># A che dirò io che
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            coſtui haueſſe riguardo ? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11092" xml:space="preserve">volle veramente che gli animi de ſuoi Cittadini
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            nel ragunarſi inſienie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11093" xml:space="preserve">mangiare inſieme diuentasſino piu benigni, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11094" xml:space="preserve">piu
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            s’interzaſsino di amicitia l’un’ con l’altro, I noſtri antichi credo io, che con
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-303-03" xlink:href="note-303-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            queſta medeſima intentione ordinaſsino nella Città gli Spettacoli, non tanto
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            per conto de piaceri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11095" xml:space="preserve">del feſteggiare, quanto ancora per conto della vtilità.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11096" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11097" xml:space="preserve">certamente ſe noi andren’bene eſaminando la coſa, ci ſouerrãno molte co-
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            ſe, perle quali ci dorremo aſſai, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11098" xml:space="preserve">aſſai, che vna vſanza tanto eccellente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11099" xml:space="preserve">tan-
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            to vtile ſi ſia gia è tanto tempo diſmeſſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11100" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che eſſendo ſtati trouati
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-303-04" xlink:href="note-303-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            gli Spettacoli alcuni per ſeruire a piaceri nel tempo della pace & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11101" xml:space="preserve">del ripoſo,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11102" xml:space="preserve">alcuni per poterſi eſercitare nelle coſe da guerra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11103" xml:space="preserve">nelle faccende, l’uno
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            de quali ſerue ad eccitare & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11104" xml:space="preserve">a nutrire la ſottigliezza, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11105" xml:space="preserve">la bontà dello’ngegno,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11106" xml:space="preserve">della mente; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11107" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11108" xml:space="preserve">l’altro accreſce marauiglioſamente la gagliardia & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11109" xml:space="preserve">la con
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            ſtantia dello animo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11110" xml:space="preserve">fa le forze robuſte; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11111" xml:space="preserve">hanno nondimeno l’uno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11112" xml:space="preserve">l’altro
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-303-05" xlink:href="note-303-05a" xml:space="preserve">25</note>
            vn’modo fermo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11113" xml:space="preserve">certo per il quale giouano marauiglioſamente alla ſalute
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11114" xml:space="preserve">allo ornamento della patria. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11115" xml:space="preserve">Gli Arcadii ſi dice che furono, i primi che tro-
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            uaſſero i giuochi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11116" xml:space="preserve">lo feciono per mitigare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11117" xml:space="preserve">addomeſticare gli animi de lo-
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            ro Cittadini, che erano di vita auſtera & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11118" xml:space="preserve">ſeuera, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11119" xml:space="preserve">quegli che tralaſciarono
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            di poi tale vſanza, ſecondo che ſcriue Polibio, diuentarono di animi ſi crudi,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-303-06" xlink:href="note-303-06a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            che pertutta Grecia erano tenuti abbomineuoli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11120" xml:space="preserve">Ma inuero la memoria de
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            giuochi è molto anticha, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11121" xml:space="preserve">varii ſi crede che ſieno gli inuentori di eſsi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11122" xml:space="preserve"># Per-
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            cioche e’dicono che Dioniſio fu il primo inuentore de balli, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11123" xml:space="preserve">de giuochi.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11124" xml:space="preserve">Trouo ancora, che Hercole fu il primo che ordinaſſe il giuoco della ſcher-
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            ma. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11125" xml:space="preserve">Dicono oltra di queſto che gli Etolij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11126" xml:space="preserve">gli Epei poi che furono tornati
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-303-07" xlink:href="note-303-07a" xml:space="preserve">35</note>
            dallo eccidio di Troia, trouarono la inuentione del luogo per i giuochi Olim
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            pici, Dicono ancora che appreſſo de Greci, Dioniſio Lemneo, il quale fu il
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            primo che trouò i cori delle Tragedie, fù anco il primo che muraſſe in luogo
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            per gli Spettacoli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11127" xml:space="preserve">In Italia dicono che Lucio Mummio fu il primo che nel
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            trionfo introduſſe i giuochi Teatrali dugento anni inanzi, che Nerone impe-
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            raſſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11128" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11129" xml:space="preserve">gli Iſtrioni vennono in Roma di Toſcana. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11130" xml:space="preserve">I giuochi de caualli ſuron’
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            trouati da Tyrij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11131" xml:space="preserve">quaſi tutta la varietà de giuochi che ci ſono rimaſti ſuron’
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            condotti & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11132" xml:space="preserve">traſportati della Aſia, in Italia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11133" xml:space="preserve">Io credo che in quella prima anti-
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            chità delle genti, quando e’cominciarono a ſcolpire Iano in bronzo facilmen-
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            te ſi ſteſſe avedere i giuochi ſotto vn’faggio, o ſotto vn’olmo, Dice Ouidio.</s>
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