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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5479" xml:space="preserve">De le Fogne, de lo uſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5480" xml:space="preserve">forma loro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5481" xml:space="preserve">de fiunsi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5482" xml:space="preserve">dellefoſſe d’acqua, che ſeruono æ
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            Nauilij.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5483" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head66" xml:space="preserve">Cap. VII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5484" xml:space="preserve">E’Si penſa, che le Fogne ſi aſpettino al lauoro de le ſtrade, concioſia chele
              <lb/>
            ſi debbino fare ſotto le ſtrade, giu per il mezo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5485" xml:space="preserve">che le giouino molto al
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-123-01" xlink:href="note-123-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            coprire, al pareggiare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5486" xml:space="preserve">a rendere piu nette le ſtrade, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5487" xml:space="preserve">per ciò non ci fa-
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            remo beffe di quelle, in queſto luogo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5488" xml:space="preserve">Et ueramente che altra coſa dirò io che
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            ſia una Fogna, ſe non un ponte, o piu toſto un qualche arco molto largo? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5489" xml:space="preserve">Nè
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            è marauiglia, ſeper queſto nel far ſimili Fogne, ſi debbino oſteruare tutte quelle
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            coſe apunto, lequali poco fa dicemmo di eſsi Ponti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5490" xml:space="preserve">Et certamente gli Antichi
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-123-02" xlink:href="note-123-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            ſtimarono tanto l’uſo de le Fogne, che e’non ſi uede ch’eglino faceſsino mai ſpe
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            ſe maggiori, in finire qual altra ſorte di muraglia ſi uoglia, nè in alcun luogo uſaſ
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            ſino maggiore diligentia: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5491" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5492" xml:space="preserve">infra le marauiglioſe muraglie de la Città di Roma,
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            ſi tiene che le Fogneſieno le principali. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5493" xml:space="preserve">Io non ſtò quì a raccontare quante cõ
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            modità arrechino con loro le Fogne, quanto le rendino la Città piu dilicata,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-123-03" xlink:href="note-123-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            quanta pulitezza arrechino a priuati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5494" xml:space="preserve">a publici edificij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5495" xml:space="preserve">quanto le giouino a
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            mantener l’aria fana, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5496" xml:space="preserve">ſincera. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5497" xml:space="preserve">La Città di Smirna, ne laquale trouandoſi aſle-
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            diato Trebonio, fu deliberato da Dolobella, ſcriuonoche & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5498" xml:space="preserve">per la dirittura de
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            le ſtrade, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5499" xml:space="preserve">per gli ornamenti de li edificij, era tenuta belliſsima; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5500" xml:space="preserve">ma per non ha
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            uere ella Fogne, che poteſsino, raccogliendo le brutture, portarle uia, offendeua
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-123-04" xlink:href="note-123-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            grandemente con il puzzo gli habitatori. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5501" xml:space="preserve">Siena Città in Toſcana, per non ha-
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            uere ella Fogne, non è punto dilicata, onde gli auuiene, che non ſolamente nel
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            principio, o nela fine de le notti, ne quali tempi ſi gettano da lefineſtre i uaſi de
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            le raccolte brutture, ella tutta ſpuzzi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5502" xml:space="preserve">ma alcuna uolta ſi uede ſporca, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5503" xml:space="preserve">fracida
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            per le molte humiditati. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5504" xml:space="preserve">Sono le Fogne di due ſorti, de l’una de lequali ſono
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-123-05" xlink:href="note-123-05a" xml:space="preserve">25</note>
            quelle che portan uia le brutture, o nefiumi, o ne laghi, o nel mare: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5505" xml:space="preserve">De l’altra ſon
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            quelle, che fatto un pozzo profondo nel Terreno, ſmaltiſcono le brutture nel
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            uentre de la Terra. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5506" xml:space="preserve">Quelle che portano uia, biſogna che ſieno laſtricate di la-
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            ſtrico a pendio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5507" xml:space="preserve">a sdruciolo, ſaldiſsimo: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5508" xml:space="preserve">perilquale poſſa la humidità ſcorrere
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            liberamẽte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5509" xml:space="preserve">chequelle coſe, che ui ſono murate, per la continoua humidità,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-123-06" xlink:href="note-123-06a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            non ſi infracidino. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5510" xml:space="preserve">Queſte medeſime ancora biſogna che ſieno ſolleuate dal
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            fiume, accioche per le piene non ſienoripiene dal fango, nèriturate da la mota.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5511" xml:space="preserve">Quelle che haueſsino a ſtare ſcoperte, ſiamo cõtenti ſenza laſtricarle de lo ignu
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            do Terreno, concioſia che i Poeti chiaman@ la Terra, il Cerbero, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5512" xml:space="preserve">i Filoſo-
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            fi, il Lupo de gli Dei; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5513" xml:space="preserve">percioche ella conſuma ogni coſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5514" xml:space="preserve">ogni coſa diuora. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5515" xml:space="preserve">
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-123-07" xlink:href="note-123-07a" xml:space="preserve">35</note>
            Quelle ſporcitie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5516" xml:space="preserve">brutture adunque, ui ſi aduneranno, mangiandoſele il
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            terreno, ſi conſumeranno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5517" xml:space="preserve">non eſaleranno puzzolenti uapori. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5518" xml:space="preserve">Vorrei be-
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            ne, che le Fogne, che hanno a riceuere l’orine, ſi collocaſsino diſcoſto a le mu-
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            ra: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5519" xml:space="preserve">Percioche da gli andori del Sole, ſi marciſcono, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5520" xml:space="preserve">ſi guaſtano marauiglioſa-
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            mente. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5521" xml:space="preserve">I Fiumi oltra queſto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5522" xml:space="preserve">lefoſſe da acqua, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5523" xml:space="preserve">quelle maſsimo, per le-
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            quali hanno a paſſare le Naui, Io penſo, che ſi debbono annouerare infra le
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            fpetie de le uie: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5524" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che e’ pare a molti, che le Naui ſieno ſpetie di car-
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            ra; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5525" xml:space="preserve">non eſſendo a la fine altro il Mare naturalmente, che una larga, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5526" xml:space="preserve">ſpatioſa
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            ſtrada. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5527" xml:space="preserve">Ma di queſte coſe, non s’aſpetta parlarne piu a la lunga in queſto </s>
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