Alberti, Leone Battista, De re aedificatoria, 1485

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              omnis ad ruinam reddatur prona. </s>
              <s id="N40574D">At muros contra miſſilium in
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              iurias ſic pulcherrime firmari arbitramur. </s>
              <s id="N405752">Anterides baſi trian
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              gula uno in hoſtes angulo proiecto denum interuallo cubitorum
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              inter ſe diſtantes per muri directiones excitabimus: et arcus ab his
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              ad alteras interducemus atque teſtudinabimus: Et interuacua quæ
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              illic ueluti ſcaphæ relictæ ſunt / ſubacta paleis argilla uectibus
                <expan abbr="dẽſantes">den
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                ſantes</expan>
              complebimus. </s>
              <s id="N405765">Fiet hinc ut tormentorum uis et impetus ap
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              pellens lentitudine fruſtretur argillæ: Fiet
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              ut
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              niſi ſparſim
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              et ilico obſtruendis feneſtris murus
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              aſſiduitate queat
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              debilitari. </s>
              <s id="N40577A">Apud Siculos pumicis copia perpulchre id præſtabit:
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              quod iſtic quærimus. </s>
              <s id="N40577F">Alibi pumicis et argillæ loco non
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              de utuntur cofo: Gypſum
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              huic operi no recuſabimus. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Demũ">Demum</expan>
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              ex his ſiquid adſit / quod humoris hauſtro nocturniſque uaporibus
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              obiectum ſit / id lapidea cruſta atque rectura ueſtiatur. </s>
              <s id="N405796">Et inprimis
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              iuuabit ripam foſſæ
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              paulo ponere elatiorem accliuitate
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                <expan abbr="">quam</expan>
              cæterum agri ſolum eſt. </s>
              <s id="N4057A1">Sic enim miſſilium deſtinationes mu
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              ros urbis non attingent: ſed ſuperuolabunt. </s>
              <s id="N4057A6">Et ſunt qui murum
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                tra</expan>
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              miſſilium tutiſſimum putent eum qui
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                to</expan>
              ita ducatur / ut ſerræ denticulos imitetur. </s>
              <s id="N4057B9">Atqui placent ad ur
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              bem Romam muri: quibus decurſorium ad mediam altitudinem
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              ineſt: Suntque per murum aptis locis relictæ foſſuræ / unde furtim
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              a ſagittariis incautus et properans hoſtis ſaucietur: Et ad murum
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              turres quinquagenos in cubitos quaſi anterides
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              prodeun
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              tibus in rotundum frontibus et proceritate celſiores muro: ut qui
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              propius applicuerit miſſilibus nudum obiiciat latus et conficia
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              tur: Sic enim et murus a turribus / et turris a turre mutuo defen
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              detur. </s>
              <s id="N4057D0">Turres quo latere urbem ſpectant / muro nudatas poni
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              to et apertas: ne hoſtem fortaſſis immiſſum protegant. </s>
              <s id="N4057D5">Tur
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              ribus muriſque coronæ et decori ſunt / et firmitatem ex nexura af
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              ferunt: et admotarum ſcalarum irreptiones prohibent. </s>
              <s id="N4057DC">Sunt qui
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              per muros ſub ipſis præſertim turribus intermiſſa præcipitia re
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              linqui uelint / et muniri pontibus ligneis: qui confeſtim aut redu
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              cti / aut deiecti prout res exigat uſui aut ſaluti ſunt.</s>
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              <s id="N4057E7">Ad portarum utrumque latus / ueteres aſſueuere geminas </s>
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