Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                  reſtando fermo, in te ogni fauore tenne raccolto. </s>
                  <s id="s.000048">Adunque con M.Aurelio, P.Mini­
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                  dio, & Gn.Cornelio fui ſopra l'apparecchio delle Baliſte, & de gli Scorpioni, & alla pro­
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                  uiſione de gli altri tormenti. </s>
                  <s id="s.000049">i quali, ſubito che mi concedeſti, molto bene per la rac­
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                  commandatione di tua ſorella ne ſeruaſti lo riconoſcimento. </s>
                  <s id="s.000050">Et però eſſendo io per
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                  quel beneficio tenuto, & obligato, di modo, che io non haueua a temere ne gli ultimi an
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                  ni della uita mia la poucrtà, io ho cominciato a ſcriuere queſte coſe.
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                  Nel proemio del ſeſto
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                  libro coſi dice.
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                  <s id="s.000051">Et però io grandiſsime, & infinite gratie rendo a i miei progenitori, i quali approuan
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                  do la legge de gli A thenieſi, mi hanno nelle Arti ammaeſtrato, & in quelle ſpecialmen­
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                  te, che ſenza lettere, & ſenza quella raccommunanza di tutte le dottrine, che in giro ſi uol
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                  ge, non puo per alcun modo eſſere commendata.}
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                  Nel proemio del ſecondo libro an­
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                  chora dice.
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                  <s id="s.000052">Ma a me, o Imperatore, la natura non ha dato la grandezza del corpo: & la ctà mi
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                  ha deformata la faccia, & la infirmita leuate le forze: la doue eſſendo io da coſi fatti
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                  preſidij abbandonato, io ſpero per mezzo della ſcientia, & de gli ſcritti in qualche gra­
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                  do ſalire. </s>
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                  Et altroue dimoſtra non eſſere ſtato ambitioſo, nè arrogante, nè auaro, & di ſe modeſtamen­
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                  te parlando, difende i letterati, riprende i temerarij, ammaeſtra gli imperiti, & ammoniſce con
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                  amore, & con fede quelli, che uogliono fabricare: ſegni certißimi della bontà dell' animo, &
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                  dell' innocenza della uita. </s>
                  <s id="s.000054">Scriſſe dieci libri d'Architettura (come egli afferma nella fine del­
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                  l'opera,) & ſotto uno aſpetto, & in un corpo la riduſſe, raunando le parti di eſſa a beneficio di tut
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                  te le genti, come egli dice nel proemio del quarto libro. </s>
                  <s id="s.000055">Il modo, che uſa Vitruuio nello ſcriuere
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                  è (come ſi conuiene) prima ordinato, dapoi con ſimplicità di uocaboli, & proprietà di parole. </s>
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                  del che egline rende la ragione nel proemio del quinto libro: ilquale io diſidero, che letto ſia,
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                  prima che ad altro ſi uegna. </s>
                  <s id="s.000057">Ma noi hauemo altre difficultà: lequali ouero ſpauentano i Letto­
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                  ri di Vitruuio, ouero ritardano gli ſtudioſi dell' Architettura: & quelle grandi ſono & potenti. </s>
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                  Et la prima è il poco ſapere di molti, i quali ſi uogliono dare a Vitruuio ſenza cognitione di let­
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                  tere. </s>
                  <s id="s.000059">Altri non conoſcono il biſogno di ſapere, & ſono come Sofiſti, e V antatori: i difetti de i
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                  quali dallo Auttore ſono in piu luoghi ſcoperti. </s>
                  <s id="s.000060">L'altra difficultà è poſta nel mancamento de gli
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                  eſſempi, sì delle opere antiche citate da Vitruuio, sì delle figure, che egli ci promette nel fine
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                  di ciaſcuno de i ſuoi dieci Libri. </s>
                  <s id="s.000061">Quelle ci inſegnarebbeno molto, & non ci laſciarebbeno il ca­
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                  rico di piu preſto indouinare, che approuare la uerità delle coſe. </s>
                  <s id="s.000062">Ma io non uorrei, che per queſte
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                  cagioni alcuno sbigottito ſi rimoueſſe da ſi bella, & lodata impreſa, nella quale molti di generoſo
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                  animo affaticati ſi ſono, & tutt' hora s'affaticano, & s'affaticheranno, ſperando, che la fati­
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                  ca, & la diligentia dell' huomo ſin per ſuperare ogni humana difficultà. </s>
                  <s id="s.000063">Io per queſta ragione
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                  aiutato dal diletto, & dallo ſtudio, che riuiue in molti, poſto mi ſono a queſta impreſa, alla
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                  quale èhomai tempo di entrare. </s>
                  <s id="s.000064">Per diſponere adunque gli intelletti, accioche meglio ſia loro
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                  dimoſtrato il ſentiero, & il fine, al quale deono peruenire, dirò, che coſa è Arte: onde naſce:
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                  come creſce: a che peruenga. </s>
                  <s id="s.000065">Diſtinguerò le Arti; Ritrouerò l'Architettura, & le parti di eſſa:
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                  dichiarando l'ufficio, & il fine dello Architetto.
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                  PROEMIO.
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                  Diuerſe ſono le qualità delle coſe, tra lequali una è, che Habito ſi dimanda ſecondo che
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                  ſi dice. </s>
                  <s id="s.000068">Far buon' habito: eſſer ben habituato: & ſimiglianti modi, che dinotano o
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                  prendere, o poſſedere una qualità, che di là, doue è, diſſicilmente ſi poſſa leuare. </s>
                  <s id="s.000069">Sot­
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                  to il predetto nome, ogni ſcientia, ogni arte, ogni uirtu, & ogni uitio ſi comprende. </s>
                  <s id="s.000070">Da que­
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                  ſta cognitione lo intelletto trahe due coſe. </s>
                  <s id="s.000071">L'una è, che egli conoſce la importanza di apprende-
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