Tartaglia, Niccolo, Quesiti et inventioni diverse, 1554

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                de Turino.
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                N. L
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                e
                  <expan abbr="cõditioni">conditioni</expan>
                , qualita, & particolarita, che douria hauere, ouer cheſt
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                potria adattare, alla forma, & mura de una citta, ſi per reſiſtere à queſti tempi alli ui­
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                goroſi colpi delle artegliarie, come anchora per potere confacilita, rebattere, & of
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                fendere in uarij modi li nimici in ogni lor impetuoſo aſſalimento, eglie da credere, che
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                ſiano molti. </s>
                <s id="s.001253">Ma quelle, che coſi per al preſente me ho imaginate, ſono ſolamente ſei,
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                & perche queſte ſei ſe poſſono alterare, & uariare in uarij, & diuerſi modi, ſecondo
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                uarij, & diuerſi riſpetti, à me ſarianeceſſario (à uolere à ſofficienza ben dechiarire,
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                & con ragione dimoſtrare di cadauna di quelle particolarmente ſua ualuta) à deſigna
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                re, uarie, & diuerſe piante, ouer à fabricare materialmente uarij, & diuerſi modelli,
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                la qual coſa non ſi puo fare coſi all'improuiſo, anci ui uol tempo, & non poco, & maßi­
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                me à me, che nel operar manuale non ſon molto iſperto.
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                P. A
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                nchor, che coſi al im­
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                prouiſo non poßiati deſignare le dette piante, ne fabricar materialmente li detti mo­
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                delli, non poteti almen ſotto breuita narrare la conditione, & proprieta di queſte uo­
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                stre ſei imaginate particolarita, & dapoi deſignare con uoſtra commodita le dette
                  <expan abbr="piã">piam</expan>
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                te, ouer modelli.
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                N. L
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                e poſſo dir ſi.
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                P. M
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                o ditteli adunque conſequentemente
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                l'una dietro l'altra, perche in effetto à me mi pare, che ſia quaſi impoßibile di poter
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                taſſare la forma de Turino de unſolo non che de ſei diffetti.
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                N. L
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                a prima coſa, che
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                à me mi pare, che doueria hauere la forma delle mura de una citta, ouer che ui ſe do­
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                ueria fare, uolendo à questi tempi fortificar quella è queſta, che mai in conto alcuno ſe
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                doucria far pala de alcuna ſua cortina, ouer muraglia, talmente, che li nemici ui poteſ­
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                ſono percotere, ouer tirare <21> pendicolarmente con le artegliarle, perche, ogni mura­
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                glia cede molto piu facilmente alle <21>cußioni delle balle, che feriſcono <21> pendicolermen
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                te ſopra à quella, di quello fa à quelle, che gli feriſcono obliquamente, cioe in ſguinzo,
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                & quanto piu ueneranno, ouer feriranno obliquamente, cioe in ſguinzo, tanto menor
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                nocumento faranno in detta cortina, ouer muraglia. </s>
                <s id="s.001254">La cauſa è, che ogni
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                per
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                coſſa fatta perpendicolarmente ſopra à una muraglia è molto piu riſentita in tutte le
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                parte di tal muraglia, di quello ſara ogni altra molto maggiore, che percottera obli­
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                quamente, ouer in ſguinzo ſopra alla medeſima.
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                P. C
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                redo questo, che uoi diceti, per
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                che delle per cußioni fatte coſi obliquamente, ouer in ſguinzo, la muraglia non riceue
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                tutta la botta, ma ſolamente parte di quella, la qual parte tanto ſara menore, quanto
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                che piu obliquamente, ouer in ſguinzo tal balla ferira ſopra à quella.
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                N. A
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                dunque
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                la forma de Turino incorre in queſto errore, perche cadauna delle ſue quattro mura­
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                glie, ouer cortine, che la circonda, ſono aſſettate di tal ſorte (come ſi uede nel ſuo diſe­
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                gno) che li nemici ui potranno ageuolmente tir are perpendicolarmente in cadauna di
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                quelle.
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                P. Q
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                uando, che tal uostra opinione ſi poteſſe mandar ad eſſecutione in ogni
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                cortina, el non ſe potria negare, che la non fuſſe una coſa molto ingenioſa, & utile.
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                </s>
                <s id="s.001255">Ma non ſolamente dubito, che uoi non ue ingannati. </s>
                <s id="s.001256">Ma tengo, che tal coſa ſta impoßi
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                bile, perche de quante citta ho pratticate, & uiſte mai, ne bo uiſto alcuna (che batter ſi
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                poſſa) che in ogni ſua cortina, non uiſe poſſa tirare per pendicolarmente con le arte­
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                gliarie.
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                N. D
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                apoi, che noi haueremo compito da narrare tutte queſte nostre ſei ima
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                ginate qualita, ouer conditioni, non ſolamente faro conoſcere, & uedere à uoſtra Si­
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                gnoria in figura (ouer con modelli) qualmente eglie poßibile di mandar ad effetto tal
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