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            deſidereranno certamente godere di tutti i beni, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4623" xml:space="preserve">di tutti i doni de la Natura;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4624" xml:space="preserve">talmente che non ui ſi poſſa arrogere piu coſa alcuna: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4625" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4626" xml:space="preserve">quanto a la neceſsità, & </s>
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            quanto a piaceri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4628" xml:space="preserve">che i beni ſi uſino rettamente, ſi puo ordinare per leggi, & </s>
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            per ſtatuti de Padri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4630" xml:space="preserve">Ma di quelle coſe, che giouano a la Vita, certo che ſono
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            molto piu gioconde quelle che ſono in caſa, che quelle che ſi hanno a procaccia
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            re di fuori. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4631" xml:space="preserve">Et deſidereranno certamente un terreno, quale è appreſſo di Mẽ-
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            fi, come ſcriue Varrone, che gode di Cielo tanto benigno, che non pure tutti gli
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            Alberi, ma le uiti ancora, non ui perdono le ſoglie in tutto l'anno, o quale ſotto
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            il Monte Tauro, in que' luoghi che guardano uerſo A quilone. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4632" xml:space="preserve">Doue Strabo-
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            ne dice, che i Grappoli dele Vue ui ſono di un braccio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4633" xml:space="preserve">mezo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4634" xml:space="preserve">che di ciaſcu
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            na Vite ſi ricoglie mezo barile di Vino, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4635" xml:space="preserve">di un fico ſolo, libre cento quaranta
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            di fichi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4636" xml:space="preserve">Oquale è quello, che habita l'India, ol'Iſola Hiperborea nel mare
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            Oceano, delquale terreno ſcriue Herodoto, che e' ricolgono il frutto due uol-
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            te l'anno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4637" xml:space="preserve">O quale è quello di Portogallo, che dai ſemi che caſcano fanno piu
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4638" xml:space="preserve">piu ricolte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4639" xml:space="preserve">Opiu preſto quale è il Talge, nel monte Caſpio, ilquale campo
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            ancorche non lauorato, genera da ſele biade. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4640" xml:space="preserve">Sono queſte coſe rare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4641" xml:space="preserve">piu to
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            ſto da eſſer bramate, che trouate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4642" xml:space="preserve">Et però quelli eccellentiſsimi Antichi, che
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            ſcriſlono di ſimili coſe, o preſe da altri, o pure da loro trouate, Dicono che la
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            Città ſi debbe talmente collocare, che baſtandole quello, che ella ricoglie nel
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-105-04" xlink:href="note-105-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            ſuo (per quanto ſopporta la ragione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4643" xml:space="preserve">la conditione de le coſe humane) el-
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            la non habbia biſogno di andare fuori per alcuna coſa neceſſaria: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4644" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4645" xml:space="preserve">ſia af-
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            forzificato in tal modo il circuito de ſuoi confini, che dal nimico non ui ſi poſſa
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            entrare coſi facilmente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4646" xml:space="preserve">che ella poſſa a ſua poſta mettere fuora eſerciti, ne le
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            prouincie d'altri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4647" xml:space="preserve">contro a la uoglia del nimico. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4648" xml:space="preserve">Imperoche egli affermano
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            che una Città coſi collocata, puo difender ſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4649" xml:space="preserve">la libertà ſua, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4650" xml:space="preserve">allargarſi molto
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            d'Imperio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4651" xml:space="preserve">Ma che dirò io quì? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4652" xml:space="preserve">Queſta lode principalmente è attribuita a
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            lo Egitto, cioè che egli ſia da ogni banda, oltre a modo affortificato, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4653" xml:space="preserve">quaſi del
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            tutto inacceſsibile; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4654" xml:space="preserve">concioſia che da un lato habbia oppoſta la marina, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4655" xml:space="preserve">da l'al-
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            tro un diſerto grandiſsimo, da la deſtra ripidiſsimi Monti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4656" xml:space="preserve">da la ſiniſtra Paludi
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-105-06" xlink:href="note-105-06a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            larghiſsime. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4657" xml:space="preserve">Oltre a che la fertilità del terreno ui è tanta, che gli antichi diſſo-
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            no, che lo Egitto era un publico granaio del mondo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4658" xml:space="preserve">Et che gli Dij erano ſo-
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            liti rifuggire in quel luogo, per recreatione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4659" xml:space="preserve">ſalute de glianimi loro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4660" xml:space="preserve">Non a-
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            uenne niente dimeno, ſecondo che ſcriue Gioſefo (benche queſta regione fuſ-
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            ſe tanto forte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4661" xml:space="preserve">tanto abbondante, che ella ſi gloriaſſe di potere dare da man-
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            giare a tutto il Mondo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4662" xml:space="preserve">riceuere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4663" xml:space="preserve">albergare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4664" xml:space="preserve">ſaluare eſsi Dij) che ella fuſſe
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            però in ogni età libera. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4665" xml:space="preserve">Ben dicono adunque coloro il uero, che fauoleggiando
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            dicono che le coſe de Mortali non ſono ſicure, ſe bene in grembo a eſſo Gioue.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4666" xml:space="preserve">Et però ci parerà immitare quella riſpoſta di Platone, ilquale eſſendo dimãdato
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            in qual luogo ſi potria trouare quella preclara Città, che egli s'era immaginata; </s>
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            Noi riſpoſe, non ſiamo iti dietro a queſto, ma ſiamo iti inueſtigãdo, in qual mo-
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            do ſe ne poteſſe fare una migliore di tutte l'altre. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4668" xml:space="preserve">Tu anteporrai quella a tutte
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            l'altre, che manco ſi diſcoſterà da la ſimilitudine di queſta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4669" xml:space="preserve">Coſi ancor noi, quaſi
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            che adducendo eſempi, deſcriuiamo quella città, laquale da gli huomini dottiſsi
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            mi ſia ꝑ eſſer giudicata per ogni conto, da douere eſſere cõmodiſsima: </s>
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