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            pe@che egli ha trouato molte coſe priuatamente & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s86" xml:space="preserve">publicamente ſenza dubbio
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            utiliſsime; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s87" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s88" xml:space="preserve">allo uſo della vita humana ſommamente accommodate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s89" xml:space="preserve">Quan
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            te honeſtiſſime famiglie haurebbon' perdute, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s90" xml:space="preserve">la noſtra & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s91" xml:space="preserve">le altre Città del mõ
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            do, rouinate del tutto per la ingiuria de tempi: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s92" xml:space="preserve">ſe le paterne habitationi non le
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            haueſſero (quaſi come riceuute nel grembo de loro antichi) diſeſe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s93" xml:space="preserve">fauorite.
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            Dedalo ne ſuoi tempi fu grandemente lodato, per hauer fatto appreſſo de i Seli-
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            nuntii una ſtanza in uolta, nella quale ſi raccoglieſſe un uapore tanto tiepido & </s>
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            piaceuole; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s96" xml:space="preserve">che moueſſe i corpi à mandar fuori grauiſsimi ſudori; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s97" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s98" xml:space="preserve">gli ſanaſſe cõ
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            grandisſima dilettatione. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s99" xml:space="preserve">Che dirò io de gli altri che andarono inueſtigan-
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            do molte coſe ſimili à queſte; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s100" xml:space="preserve">atte à giouare alla ſanità: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s101" xml:space="preserve">come luoghi da farſi por-
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            tare, da notare, le ſtufe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s102" xml:space="preserve">altri ſimili. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s103" xml:space="preserve">O à che racconterò io, i carri & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s104" xml:space="preserve">gli altri in-
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            ſtrumenti da portare, i Mulini, gli horiuoli, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s105" xml:space="preserve">ſimili coſe minute: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s106" xml:space="preserve">lequali niẽtedi
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            meno ſono al uiuer noſtro di grandisſimo momento? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s107" xml:space="preserve">A che le abbõdanzie del
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            le acque cauate de piu ſecreti & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s108" xml:space="preserve">ripoſti luoghi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s109" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s110" xml:space="preserve">eſpoſte à tanto uarie & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s111" xml:space="preserve">eſpedi-
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            te comodità de gli huomini? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s112" xml:space="preserve">A che i Trofei? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s113" xml:space="preserve">i Tabernacoli, gli Edificii ſacri, le
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            Chieſe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s114" xml:space="preserve">ſimili, trouate per il culto diuino & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s115" xml:space="preserve">utilità de poſteri? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s116" xml:space="preserve">A che finalmente
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            le tagliate Ripe, i forati Monti, le ripiene Valli, i riſtretti Laghi, gli sboccati Pa-
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            duli nel mare, le fabricate Naui, i dirizzati Fiumi, le aperte Foci, i piantati Ponti,
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            i fatti Porti, non ſolamente prouedendo àle comodità de gli huomini per à tem
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            po: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s117" xml:space="preserve">ma aprendoli la uia da potere andare per tutte le prouincie del mondo.
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            Onde è nato che gli huomini ſcam bieuolmente hanno inſieme accomunato l'u
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            no a l'altro le uettouaglie, le ſpetierie, le gioie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s119" xml:space="preserve">le notitie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s120" xml:space="preserve">cognitioni delle co
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            e, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s121" xml:space="preserve">tutto quello che è vtile alla ſalute & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s122" xml:space="preserve">al modo della uita. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s123" xml:space="preserve">Aggiugni à queſto
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            gli Inſtrumenti & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s124" xml:space="preserve">Machine da guerra; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s125" xml:space="preserve">le Fortezze, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s126" xml:space="preserve">quelle coſe che fanno di bi
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            ſogno à difendere la libertà della Patria, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s127" xml:space="preserve">à mantenere l'honore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s128" xml:space="preserve">ad accreſce-
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            re la grandezza della Città: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s129" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s130" xml:space="preserve">ad acquiſtare & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s131" xml:space="preserve">à ſtabilire uno Imperio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s132" xml:space="preserve">Io
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            certo mi penſo che ſe ſi dimandaſſero tutte quelle città, lequali dapoi inqua che
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            è memoria de gli huomini ſon uenute per aſſedio, ſotto lo imperio d'altri; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s133" xml:space="preserve">da
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            chi eſſe fuſsino ſtate ſoggiogate & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s134" xml:space="preserve">uinte; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s135" xml:space="preserve">elleno certo direbbono, dallo Archi-
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            tettore: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s136" xml:space="preserve">Et di eſſere ſtate ſofficienti aſprezare facilmente lo armato inimico;
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            ma non già di eſſere ſtate poſſenti di durare contro alla forza dello ingegno; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s138" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
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            alla grandezza delle Machine, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s140" xml:space="preserve">allo impeto de gli inſtrumenti bellici; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s141" xml:space="preserve">conle
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            quali coſe lo Architettore le ſtrigneua, le infeſtaua, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s142" xml:space="preserve">le rouinaua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s143" xml:space="preserve">Et coſi per
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            il contrario diranno quelle che ſono ſtate aſſediate, di non ſi eſſere difeſe con
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            alcuna altra coſa, piu che con lo aiuto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s144" xml:space="preserve">con le Arti dello Architettore.
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            Et ſe tu andrai eſaminando le fatte eſpeditioni; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s146" xml:space="preserve">trouerai forſe che la maggior
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            paite delle uittorie ſi ſono acquiſtate piu toſto per le arti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s147" xml:space="preserve">per le uirtuti de
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            gli Architettori: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s148" xml:space="preserve">che per i gouerni, ò per le fortune de Capitani; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s149" xml:space="preserve">Et che lo ini-
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            mico è ſtato piu uolte ſuperato, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s150" xml:space="preserve">uinto dallo ingegno de gli Architettori, ſen-
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            za le armi de Capitani; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s151" xml:space="preserve">che dalle armi de Capitani, ſenza l'ingegno de gli Ar-
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            chitettori. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s152" xml:space="preserve">Et quel che grandemente importa, è che lo Architettore con po-
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            ca gente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s153" xml:space="preserve">ſenza perdere i ſoldati, uince. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s154" xml:space="preserve">Hor ſia quanto alla utilità detto a ba
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            ſtanza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s155" xml:space="preserve">Maquanto il penſiero & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s156" xml:space="preserve">il diſcorſo dello edificare diletti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s157" xml:space="preserve">ſia fitto
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            dentro ne gli animi de gli huomini, ſi uede da molte coſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s158" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s159" xml:space="preserve">da queſta </s>
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