Tartaglia, Niccolo, Quesiti et inventioni diverse, 1554

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                <s id="s.001230">LIBRO SESTO DELLI
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                QVESITI, ET IN VENTIONI DIVERSE,
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                DE NICOLO TARTAGLIA.</s>
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                <s id="s.001231">S
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                opra il modo di fortificar le Citta
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                riſpetto alla forma.
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                <s id="s.001232">QVESITO PRIMO FATTO DAL S. GABRIEL
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                T
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                adino, Cauallier de Rodi, & Prior di Barletta.
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                <s id="s.001233">PRIORE. N
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                on credeti uoi che lo ingegno dell'huomo al preſente
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                ſia peruenuto à quel ſublime grado doue ſia poßibile à peruenire,
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                per fortificare una citta.
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                N. D
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                i queſto non ui ſaprei riſpondere,
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                perche non ſolamente ho praticato poco per Italia, & manco fuor
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                de Italia, ma da dodeci anni in qua mai ſon ſtato fuora di Venetia,
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                ſaluo una uolta che andai à Verona per un mio negocio quaſi à ſtaf­
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                fetta.
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                P. M
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                o non uedeſti Padoua, & Verona, non haueti ancho­
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                ra uiſto Breſſa uoſtra Patria.
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                N. P
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                adoua ho uiſto per tranſito ſim
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                plicemente in trauerſarla per andare alle barche dal Fraßine, ma non conſiderata. </s>
                <s id="s.001234">Si­
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                milmente ho uiſto Verona, & ſtantiato per diece anni in quella, ma mai la circondai,
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                ne manco conſiderai, la figura del contorno di quella. </s>
                <s id="s.001235">La canſa fu che à quel tempo non
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                mi dilettaua de tai particolarita, ne mai hebbi in animo di dilettarmene in conto alcu­
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                no, ma queſti ſoſpetti, & mouimenti Turcheſchi me hanno dato nuouamente occaſione
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                di ponerui alquanto cura, come coſa utile, & neceſſaria, & quello che ho detto di Ve­
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                rona, il medeſimo dico di Breſſa
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                (P
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                atria mia) & ſimilmente di Crema, Bergamo, &
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                Millano. </s>
                <s id="s.001236">Le quai citta tutte le ho uedute quando era giouene, & gargione. </s>
                <s id="s.001237">Ma non
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                conſiderata la forma delle mura di alcuna di quelle, eglie ben uero, che quando stantia­
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                ua à Verona, io fui alcune uolte à San Georgio, & uidi à quella porta eſſerui princi­
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                piati alcuni fondamenti dimura di una iſmiſurata groſſezza, & ſimilmente me aricor
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                do hauer uiſto à cadauna delle altre porte certi baſtioni, torrioni, ouer baluardi, alcuni
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                ſolamente principiati, alcuni meggi fatti, & alcuni compiti, di una groſſezza ineſtima
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                bile, ma come ho detto, mai poßicura alla forma del contorno di quella, il medeſimo di­
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                co hauer uiſto Breſſa
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                (P
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                atria mia) & stantiato per tutta la mia pueritia, in quella, &
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                me aricordo delli ſuoi großißimi terrai, muri, et torrioni, ma non della forma.
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                P. M
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                o
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                hauendo uiſto quelli ſondamenti de mura, & torrioni coſi großißimi di Verona, et quel
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                li großißimi terrai, mura, & torrioni, che circonda Breſſa, non poteti far giudicio del
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                laſua fortezza.
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                N. L
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                o ingegno dell'huomo, nel fortificar una citta (ſecondo il mio
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                parere) ſe conoſce per la forma, & non per la materia, perche à fortificare una citta
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                ſimplicemente per uigore, & forza de materia. </s>
                <s id="s.001238">La non mi pare coſa molto ingenio­
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                ſa, ne di molte laude degna.
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                P. I
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                o non ue intendo troppo bene.
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                NIC. I
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                o dico,
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                che à fortificare una Citta ui concorre la materia, & la forma, & che lo inge­
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                gno dillo huomo ſe approua per la forma delle ſue mura, & non per la materia, </s>
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