Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura
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            rà buono, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13312" xml:space="preserve">giouerà, o ſeccare le paludi a fatto, o veramente far che vi ſia di
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            molta acqua di Riui, di fiume, o di Mare, tirataui dentro, o veramente cauarle
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            tanto a fondo, che ſi troui l’acqua viua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13313" xml:space="preserve">Et di queſte ſia detto a baſtanza.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head155" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Chel’ Acque principalmente ſono neceſsariſsime & di uarie
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          ſorti. Cap. II.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s13315" xml:space="preserve">PRouediamo al preſente che e’ non ci manchi coſa alcuna della quale poſ-
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            ſiamo hauere di biſogno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13316" xml:space="preserve">Et quali ſieno le coſe neceſſarie non ſtarò io
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            a raccontare troppo lungamente; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13317" xml:space="preserve">perche elle ſono manifeſte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13318" xml:space="preserve">Le coſe da
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            mangiare, le veſtimenta, i Tetti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13319" xml:space="preserve">principalmente l’acqua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13320" xml:space="preserve">Talete Mileſio
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            vſaua dire che l’acqua era il principio delle coſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13321" xml:space="preserve">della congiuntione huma-
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            na. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13322" xml:space="preserve"># Ariſtobolo dice, c’haueua veduti piu di mille borghi abbãdonati, perche
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            il fiume lndo ſi era volto altroue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13323" xml:space="preserve">Etio non negherò che l’acqua non ſia a gli
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            animali quaſi vn nutrimẽto di calore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13324" xml:space="preserve">vno alimento della vita; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13325" xml:space="preserve">o perche ſtarò
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            io a raccontare le piante? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13326" xml:space="preserve">o l’altre coſe, de le quali ſi ſeruono i mortali? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13327" xml:space="preserve">io mi
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            pẽſo coſi, che quelle coſe, che creſcono, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13328" xml:space="preserve">ſi nutriſcono ſopra de la terra, tutte,
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            ſe tu gli leuerai l’acqua diuenteranno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13329" xml:space="preserve">ſi conuertiranno in niente. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13330" xml:space="preserve">Appreſſo
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            allo Eufrate non laſciano paſcere i beſtiami quanto e’ vogliono, perche eglino
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            ingraſlano troppo, mediante le Praterie troppo buone del che penſano ne ſia
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            cagione la troppa abbondantia dell’humore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13331" xml:space="preserve">Dicono che in Mare ſono peſci
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            grandiſsimi, perche dall’acqua ne è porta grandiſsima copia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13332" xml:space="preserve">abbondantia di
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            nutrimenti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13333" xml:space="preserve">Dice Senofoute che a Re di Lacedemonia era dato per maggior
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            grandezza che inanzi alla caſa vicino alle Porte haueſsino vno ſtagno di acqua.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s13334" xml:space="preserve">Per coſtume antico nelle nozze, ne Sacrificij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13335" xml:space="preserve">in tuttte quaſi le coſe ſacre,
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            adoperiamo l’acqua, le qual coſe tutte faranno fede, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13336" xml:space="preserve">ſono inditio della ſtima,
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            che feciono; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13337" xml:space="preserve">i noſtri Antichi della acqua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13338" xml:space="preserve">Ma chi negherà che la abbondantia
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            di quella non gioui molto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13339" xml:space="preserve">aiuti in molti modi a la generatione humana, di
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            maniera che e’ non è mai da penſare che in qual ſi voglia luogo ne ſia modeſta-
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            mente, ſenon quando e’ ue ne ſarà abbondantia grandiſsima per tuttii biſogni.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s13340" xml:space="preserve">Dalla acqua adunque comincieremo ſeruendoſene noi come e’ dicono, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13341" xml:space="preserve">ſani
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13342" xml:space="preserve">infermi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13343" xml:space="preserve">I Maſſageti, aperto in molti luoghi il fiume Arago, feciono la Re-
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            gione Aquidoſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13344" xml:space="preserve">A Babbillonia perch’ella era edificata in luogo arido furo-
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            no condotti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13345" xml:space="preserve">il Tigre, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13346" xml:space="preserve">lo Eufrrate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13347" xml:space="preserve">Semiramis introduſſe nella Città Ecba-
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            tana vno A quidotto, forato un alto monte per ſtadij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13348" xml:space="preserve">25. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13349" xml:space="preserve">con vna foſſa larga
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            quindici piedi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13350" xml:space="preserve">Il Re Arabo dal fiume Coro di Arabia ſino a quei luoghi deſer
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            ti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13351" xml:space="preserve">aridi, doue egli aſpettaua Cambiſe (ſe noi crediamo ogni coſa, ad Erodoto)
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            conduſſe l’acqua, hauendo fatto il condotto di pelle di Tori. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13352" xml:space="preserve">Appreſſo a Samij
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            infra le opere rare era per marauiglioſa tenuta, vna foſſa lunga ſettanta ſta-
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            dij tirata per un monte alto cento cinquanta cubiti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13353" xml:space="preserve"># Marauigliauanſi
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            ancora di vno condotto fatto da Megaro, che era alto venti piedi, median-
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            te il quale ſi conduceua il fonte nella Città. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13354" xml:space="preserve"># Ma a mio giuditio la Città
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            di Roma ſuperò di gran lunga tutti coſtoro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13355" xml:space="preserve">di grandezza di </s>
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