Alberti, Leone Battista, Architecture, 1755

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              Town, there are but few Pleaſures, but thoſe
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              of Luxury and the Night. </s>
              <s>It is ſufficient there­
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              fore if in Town they can have an Abode that
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              does not want any Conveniencies for living
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              with Health, Dignity and Politeneſs: But yet,
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              as far as the Want of Room and Proſpect will
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              admit, our Habitation in Town ſhould not be
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              without any of the Delicacies of that in the
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              Country. </s>
              <s>We ſhould be ſure to have a good
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              Court-yard, Portico, Places for Exerciſe, and
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              ſome Garden. </s>
              <s>If you are crampt for Room,
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              and cannot make all your Conveniencies upon
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              one Floor, make ſeveral Stories, by which
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              means you may make the Members of your
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              Houſe as large as is neceſſary; and if the Na­
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              ture of your Foundation will allow it, dig
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              Places under Ground for your Wines, Oil, Wood,
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              and even ſome Part of your Family, and ſuch
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              a Baſement will add Majeſty to your whole
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              Structure. </s>
              <s>Thus you may build as many Stories
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              as you pleaſe, till you have fully provided for
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              all the Occaſions of your Family. </s>
              <s>The prin­
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              cipal Parts may be allotted to the principal Oc­
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              caſions; and the moſt Honourable, to the moſt
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              Honourable. </s>
              <s>No Store-rooms ſhould be want­
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              ing for laying up Corn, Fruits, and all Manner
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              of Tools, Implements and Houſhold-ſtuff;
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              nor Places for divine Worſhip; nor Wardrobes
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              for the Women. </s>
              <s>Nor muſt you be without
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              convenient Store-rooms for laying up Cloaths
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              deſigned for your Family to wear only on Ho­
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              lidays, and Arms both deſenſive and offenſive,
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              Implements for all Sorts of Works in Wool,
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              Preparations for the Entertainment of Gueſts,
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              and all Manner of Neceſſaries for any extraor­
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              dinary Occaſions. </s>
              <s>There ſhould be different
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              Places for thoſe Things that are not wanted
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              above once a Month, or perhaps once a Year,
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              and for thoſe that are in Uſe every Day. </s>
              <s>Every
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              one of which, though they cannot be always
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              kept lockt up in Store-rooms, ought however
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              to be kept in ſome Place where they may be
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              conſtantly in Sight; and eſpecially ſuch Things
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              as are ſeldomeſt in Uſe; becauſe thoſe Things
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              which are moſt in Sight, are leaſt in Danger
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              of Thieves. </s>
              <s>The Habitations of middling Peo­
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              ple ought to reſemble the Delicacy of thoſe of
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              the richer Sort, in Proportion to their Circum­
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              ſtances; ſtill imitating them with ſuch Mode­
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              ration, as not to run into a greater Expence
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              than they can well ſupport. </s>
              <s>The Country
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              Houſes for theſe, therefore, ſhould be contrived
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              with little leſs Regard to their Flocks and
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              Herds, than to their Wives. </s>
              <s>Their Dove­
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              houſe, Fiſh-ponds, and the like ſhould be leſs
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              for Pleaſure, than for Proſit: But yet their
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              Country Houſe ſhould be built in ſuch a Man­
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              ner, that the Wife may like the Abode, and
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              look after her Buſineſs in it with Pleaſure; nor
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              ſhould we have our Eye ſo entirely upon Pro­
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              fit, as to neglect the Health of the Inhabitants.
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              <s>Whenever we have Occaſion for Change of
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              Air,
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              Celſus
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              adviſes us to take it in Winter; for
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              our Bodies will grow accuſtomed to Winter
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              Colds, with leſs Danger of our Health than to
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              Summer Heats. </s>
              <s>But we, on the Contrary, are
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              fond of going to our Country Houſes chiefly
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              in Summer; we ought therefore to take Care
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              to have that the moſt Healthy. </s>
              <s>As for the
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              Town Houſe for a Tradeſman, more Regard
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              muſt be had to the Conveniency of his Shop,
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              from whence his Gain and Livelihood is to
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              ariſe than to the Beauty of his Parlour; the
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              beſt Situation for this is, in Croſs-ways, at a
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              Corner; in a Market-place or Square, in the
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              Middle of the Place; in a High-ſtreet, ſome
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              remarkable jutting out; inaſmuch as his chief
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              Deſign is to draw the Eyes of Cuſtomers. </s>
              <s>In
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              the middle Parts of his Houſe he need have no
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              Partitions but of unbaked Bricks and common
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              Plaiſter; but in the Front and Sides, as he can­
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              not always be ſure of having honeſt Neighbours,
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              he muſt make his Walls ſtronger againſt the
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              Aſſaults both of Men and Weather. </s>
              <s>He ſhould
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              alſo build his Houſe either at ſuch a proper
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              Diſtance from his next Neighbour's, that there
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              may be room for the Air to dry the Walls af­
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              ter any Rain; or ſo cloſe, that the Water may
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              run off from both in the ſame Gutter; and let
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              the Top of the Houſe, and the Gutters parti­
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              cularly, have a very good Slope, that the Rain
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              may neither lie ſoaking too long, nor daſh back
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              into the Houſe; but be carried away as quick
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              and as clear as poſſible. </s>
              <s>There remains no­
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              thing now but to recollect ſome few Rules laid
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              down in the firſt Book, and which ſeem to be­
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              long to this Head. </s>
              <s>Let thoſe Parts of the
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              Building which are to be particularly ſecure
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              againſt Fire, and the Injuries of the Weather,
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              or which are to be cloſer or freer from Noiſe,
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              be all vaulted; ſo likewiſe ſhould all Places un­
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              der Ground: But for Rooms above Ground,
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              flat Ceilings are wholeſomer. </s>
              <s>Thoſe which
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              require the cleareſt Light, ſuch as the common
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              Parlour, the Portico, and eſpecially the Library,
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              ſhould be ſituated full Eaſt? </s>
              <s>Thoſe Things
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              which are injured by Moths, Ruſt or Milldew,
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              ſuch as Cloaths, Books, Arms, and all Manner </s>
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