Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            differente da l'huomo, che quella ſola, mediante la quale egli è molto lontano
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            dal genere de le beſtie; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4513" xml:space="preserve">cioè la ragione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4514" xml:space="preserve">la cognitione de le buonearti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4515" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4516" xml:space="preserve">aggiu
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            gnici ſetu uuoi, la proſperità de la fortuna. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4517" xml:space="preserve">De le quali tutte Doti, pochi ſono
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            infra mortali, che ne ſieno interamente dotati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4518" xml:space="preserve">in eſſe eccellenti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4519" xml:space="preserve">Apriracciſi
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            di quì adunque la noſtra prima diuiſione, cioè che noi ne ſcegliamo di tutta la
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-103-01" xlink:href="note-103-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            moltitudine alquanti, alcuni de quali ſieno Illuſtri, mediante la loro ſapiẽza, cõ-
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            ſiglio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4520" xml:space="preserve">ingegno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4521" xml:space="preserve">Alcuni altri approuati mediante l'uſo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4522" xml:space="preserve">la notitia de le coſe,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4523" xml:space="preserve">altri ſieno celebrati perla copia de le ricchezze, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4524" xml:space="preserve">per la abbondanza de beni
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            di fortuna. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4525" xml:space="preserve">Et chi negherà, che à coſtoro non ſi debbino dare à cura le princi-
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            pali parti de la Repub. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4526" xml:space="preserve">A gli huomini egregij adunque che ſarãno di gran cõ-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-103-02" xlink:href="note-103-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            ſiglio, ſi debbe dare la principal cura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4527" xml:space="preserve">poteſtà dimoderarele coſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4528" xml:space="preserve">Coſtoro
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            cõ Religione ſtatuiranno le coſeſacre: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4529" xml:space="preserve">Et giuſti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4530" xml:space="preserve">ragioneuoli, conſtituiranno
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            con le leggi gli ordini, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4531" xml:space="preserve">moſtreranno la uia di bene, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4532" xml:space="preserve">felicemente uiuere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4533" xml:space="preserve">Ve-
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            glieranno per difendere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4534" xml:space="preserve">accreſcer, l'un dì piu che l'altro, l'autorità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4535" xml:space="preserve">la digni
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            tà deloro Cittadini. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4536" xml:space="preserve">Et doue per auentura eglino harãno proueduto coſa, che
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-103-03" xlink:href="note-103-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            ſia per eſſere commoda, utile, o neceſſaria, eſſendo eſsi forſe ſtracchi da gli anni,
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            talmente che piu preſto uoglino eſſere occupati nel cõtemplare delle coſe, che
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            in metterle ad eſſecutione le cõmetteranno a quelli che in eſſe ſono pratichi ꝑ
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            lungo uſo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4537" xml:space="preserve">eſpediti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4538" xml:space="preserve">atti a metterle ad effetto; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4539" xml:space="preserve">accioche e' uadino cõtinouan-
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            do con i portamenti loro, di ben meritare della Patria. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4540" xml:space="preserve">Et queſti altri, preſo il
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-103-04" xlink:href="note-103-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            negotio ſopra di loro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4541" xml:space="preserve">in caſa con grandiſsimo ingegno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4542" xml:space="preserve">ſollecitudine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4543" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4544" xml:space="preserve">fuo
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            ra con la fatica, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4545" xml:space="preserve">con i diſagi, procureranno il fatto diligentemente, daranno
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            ſententie, guideranno eſſerciti, eſerciteranno ſe ſteſsi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4546" xml:space="preserve">la multitudine, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4547" xml:space="preserve">la in-
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            duſtria de loro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4548" xml:space="preserve">Conoſcendoſi finalmente, che ſi affaticheriano indarno, a uo-
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            ler dare perfettione a le coſe, ſenza le facultadi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4549" xml:space="preserve">quelli, che ſeguono doppo coſto
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-103-05" xlink:href="note-103-05a" xml:space="preserve">25</note>
            ro, biſogna che ſopperiſchino con le ricchezze loro, o da la agricultura, o merca
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            tura che ſele habbino. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4550" xml:space="preserve">Tutta l'altra multitudine de gli huomini, debbe ſecon-
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            do che ricercherà il biſogno, ubbidire, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4551" xml:space="preserve">porgere aiuto a queſti principali. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4552" xml:space="preserve">Se
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            queſte coſe fanno aſſai a propoſito, noi certo ueggiamo chele qualità de gli edi-
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            ficij, altre ſi aſpettano al Publico, altre a Cittadini principali, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4553" xml:space="preserve">altre a la Plebe.
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            Et a principali, ancora, altre ſi aſpettano a quelli che hanno il pondo di penſar a
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            la Città, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4555" xml:space="preserve">a Conſigli; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4556" xml:space="preserve">altre a quelli, che ſi eſercitano in le faccende, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4557" xml:space="preserve">altre a quel
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            li, che attendono a ragunar le ricchezze. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4558" xml:space="preserve">Di tutte lequali coſe certamente, re-
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            ferendoſene, come habbiamo detto, una certa parte a la neceſsità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4559" xml:space="preserve">un' altra
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            parte a la commodità; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4560" xml:space="preserve">ſiane lecito a noi, che trattiamo de gli edificij, l'hauerne
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            conceſsi alcuni per diletto delo animo mentre che in cambio di premio, noi
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            ſtatuiremo che i principij di ſimili diuiſsioni, ſi debbino ricercare da primi do-
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            cumenti de Filoſofi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4561" xml:space="preserve">Di queſti adunque douiamo noi trattare quel che ad uno
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            edificio publico ſi aſpetti quel che a gli edificij de Cittadini principali, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4562" xml:space="preserve">quel
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            che a gli edificij de la Plebe ſi cõuenga. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4563" xml:space="preserve">Ma donde comincieremo noi a dare
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            principio a ſi gran coſe? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4564" xml:space="preserve">Comincieremo noi ſi come interuenne a gli huomi-
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            ni, nel procacciarſi di giorno in giorno ſimili coſe, da le picciole caſuccie de
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            poueri priuati? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4565" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4566" xml:space="preserve">dipoi paſſeremo ſi come noi ueggiamo, a queſti grandiſsi-
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            mi edificij de Teatri, de le Terme, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4567" xml:space="preserve">de Tempi? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4568" xml:space="preserve">Egli è certo coſa </s>
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