Alberti, Leone Battista, Architecture, 1755

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              Diſtempers: They ought to have Places en­
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              tirely ſeperate. </s>
              <s>The Ancients dedicated their
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              Buildings of this Nature to
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              Æculapius, Apollo,
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              and
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              Health,
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              Gods among them to whom they
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              aſcribed the Cure of Sickneſs and Preſervation
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              Health, and ſituated them in the beſt Air they
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              could find out, and near Plenty of the cleareſt
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              Water, where the Sick might recover their
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              Health, not ſo much by the Aſſiſtanc of thoſe
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              Gods, as the natural Healthineſs of the Place:
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              And certainly nothing can be more reaſonable
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              than to carry the Sick, whether under a private
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              or a publick Cure, into the moſt healthy Places;
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              and perhaps none are more ſo, than thoſe which
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              are very dry and ſtony, fanned with continual
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              Breezes, not burnt up by the Sun, but cool and
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              temperate: Since we find that all Moiſture is
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              the Mother of Corruption. </s>
              <s>We ſee that Na­
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              ture in every Thing loves a Medium; and even
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              Health itſelf is nothing but a due Moderation
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              of the Qualities of the Body; and indeed no­
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              thing that is in Extreams can pleaſe. </s>
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              Reſt, thoſe who are ſeized with Diſeaſes which
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              are contagious, ſhould be taken Care of not on­
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              ly without the City, but remote even from any
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              high Road; the others may be kept in the
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              City. </s>
              <s>The Apartments for all theſe ſhould be
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              ſo laid out and diſtributed, that there may be
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              diſtinct Places for thoſe who are curable, and
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              thoſe whom you take in rather to maintain
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              them for the Remainder of their unhappy
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              Days, than to cure them: Of this Sort are the
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              Superannuated, and thoſe who want their
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              Senſes. </s>
              <s>Add further, that the Men and Wo­
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              men, as well the Patients, as the Perſons that
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              attend them, ſhould have Apartments ſeparate
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              from one another; and as ſome Parts of the
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              Building ſhould be for Particulars, others ſhould
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              be in common, according as it ſhall be found
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              neceſſary for the Management of the Patients,
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              and the more eaſy cohabiting together: Of
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              which there is no Occaſion to ſay more in this
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              Place. </s>
              <s>We ſhall only obſerve that all theſe
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              Conveniencies are to be contrived according to
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              the Rules hereafter to be laid down for the
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              Houſes of private Perſons. </s>
              <s>We ſhall there­
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              fore now proceed according to the Method
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              which we have preſcribed to ourſelves.</s>
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              <s>CHAP. IX.</s>
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              Of the Senate-houſe, the Temple, and the Tribunals for the Adminiſtration of
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              Juſtice.
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              <s>Having already obſerved that the Re­
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              publick conſiſts of two Parts, the Sacred
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              and the Profane, and having treated of the
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              Sacred as much as was requiſite, and in a good
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              Meaſure too of the Profane, where we took
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              Notice of the Place in the Palace of the Prince
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              where the Senate was to meet, and where
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              Cauſes were to be heard; we ſhall now very
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              briefly ſpeak of thoſe Things which ſeem neceſ­
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              ſary to be further added, then proceed to In­
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              campments and Fleets, and laſtly treat of
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              Things relating to the Uſes of private Perſons.
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              <s>The Ancients uſed to call their Senates together
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              in Temples, and afterwards it grew a Cuſtom
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              for them to meet ſomewhere out of the City.
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              <s>But at length, both for greater Dignity and
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              Conveniency in tranſacting the publick Affairs,
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              it was found neceſſary to raiſe Structures for
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              this Purpoſe only; where neither the Length
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              of the Way, nor any Inconveniency in the
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              Place itſelf, might deter the aged Fathers from
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              meeting often, and continuing a good while
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              together; and for this Reaſon they placed the
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              Senate-houſe in the Middle of the City, with
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              the Place for the Adminiſtration of Juſtice and
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              the Temple near adjoining, that not only thoſe
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              who made Intereſt for Offices, or were obliged
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              to attend Law-ſuits, might with greater Con­
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              venience, and without loſing their Time or
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              Opportunity, look after their Affairs of both
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              Natures; but alſo that the Fathers (as Men are
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              generally moſt devoted to Religion in their old
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              Age) might firſt pay their Devotions in the
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              Temple, and afterwards repair immediately to
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              the Tranſaction of the publick Buſineſs. </s>
              <s>Add
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              to all this, that when any Ambaſſador or fo­
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              reign Prince deſires Audience of the Senate, it
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              becomes the Republick to have a Place ſuitable
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              to the Dignity both of the Stranger and of the
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              City, to receive them in, while they wait for
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              Introduction. </s>
              <s>Laſtly, in publick Buildings of
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              this Sort, you muſt neglect none of thoſe Rules
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              which belong to the convenient and honoura­
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              ble Reception of a Multitude of Citizens, and
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              their eaſy Diſmiſſion: And above all you muſt
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              take particular Care, that there is not the leaſt </s>
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