Alberti, Leone Battista, De re aedificatoria, 1485
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              tecti commento admirabilem /ea re / quod rerum
                <expan abbr="affluẽtiam">affluentiam</expan>
              incolæ
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              habituri non eſſent: Ariſtoteli fortaſſis poterat placere ea regio:
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              præſertim condendis urbibus / quæ difficiles haberet aditus: Et
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              comperio fuiſſe gentes: quæ ſuos fines deſertiſſimos et deſtitutiſ
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              ſimos longe ac late hoſtium
                <expan abbr="incommodãdorum">incommodandorum</expan>
              gratia eſſe affec
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              tarint: Horum rationes probaſſe ne
                <expan abbr="cõueniat/">conueniat /</expan>
              an
                <expan abbr="nõalibi">non alibi</expan>
              diſcep
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              tabimus: Sed hæc ſi ita iuuant publicis iſtiuſmodi
                <expan abbr="ĩ">in</expan>
              rebus / non
                <expan abbr="">esse</expan>
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              ut eorum inſtitutum improbem: At reliquis profecto ædificiis
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                <expan abbr="ponẽdis">ponendis</expan>
              mihi ea perplacebit regio / quæ et multos et uarios habebit
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              aditus: quibus et naui et iumento et iugo
                <expan abbr="">tum</expan>
              æſtate / tum et hyeme
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              neceſſaria commodiſſime poſſint conuehi: Atqui erit ipſa regio
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              neque
                <expan abbr="aquarũ">aquarum</expan>
              exuberantia madida neque ſiccitate aſpera: ſed habilis
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              et
                <expan abbr="contẽperabilis">contemperabilis</expan>
              : Aut ſi id ex
                <expan abbr="ſentẽtia">ſententia</expan>
              nequeat: paulo frigentem
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              et
                <expan abbr="ſiccam/q̃">ſiccam / quae</expan>
              minus calentem et plus ſatis humectam eligemus:
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              Nam tecto / pariete / ueſte / igne / motu frigora
                <expan abbr="uincent̃">uincentur</expan>
                <expan abbr="Siccitatẽ">Siccitatem</expan>
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              quidem cur uehementer hominum corpora aut ingenia lædat ha
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              bere in ſe quippiam haud multum arbitrantur: Tum et ſiccis du
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              reſcere / frigidis fortaſſis horreſcere homines putant: Verum hu
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              midis tabeſcere corpora omnia et calidis ſolui affirmant: Et uide
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              re licet cum frigida propter tempora
                <expan abbr="homines/tũ">homines / tum</expan>
              et frigenti loco
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              habitantes corpore ſtare ualido et morbis libero. </s>
              <s id="N4008A9">Tam et ſi ſtatu
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              aut calentibus locis excellere ingenia / frigentibus præſtare corpo
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              ra: Tum ex appiano hiſtorico intellexi Numidas ea de re
                <expan abbr="maxĩe">maxime</expan>
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              longe uos eſſe quod hyemem
                <expan abbr="nequicq̃">nequicquam</expan>
              habeant frigentem: Omnium
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              tum
                <expan abbr="optĩa">optima</expan>
              erit regio: quæ ſubhumecta et tepens ſit: Proceros: n:
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              et uenuſtos ea homines feret / atque etiam minime triſtes. </s>
              <s id="N4008C2">Secundo
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              loco ea erit Regio percommoda / quæ niuoſis in prouinciis plus
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              cæteris habebit ſolis / et quæ ſolibus areſcenti in prouincia plus ha
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              bebit humecti atque umbrarum: Sed nullo ponetur loco ædificium
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              utcunque ipſum ſit:
                <expan abbr="incõmodius">incommodius</expan>
              atque indecentius / quam cum intra
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                <expan abbr="cõuallem">conuallem</expan>
              abditum ſit: Nam ut cetera obmittam / quæ
                <expan abbr="ĩ">im</expan>
              promptu
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              ſunt: ea ſine ulla dignitate deliteſcere / et proſpectus amænitate in
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              tercepta nullam habere gratiam: Quid illud / quod breui fiat / ut
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              imbrium ruinis obruatur: et circum fluentibus aquis infundatur </s>
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