Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura
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            di dilicatezza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6249" xml:space="preserve">Ma il luogo per gli Spedali poi doue il loro Spedalingo hab-
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            bia a eſſercitare l’officio de la pietà uerſo i Poueri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6250" xml:space="preserve">gli abbandona ti, ſi debbe
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            fare uario, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6251" xml:space="preserve">collocarlo cõ grandiſsima diligentia: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6252" xml:space="preserve">concioſia che in altro luogo
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            è neceſſario alloggiare i Poueri abbandonati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6253" xml:space="preserve">in altro ricreare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6254" xml:space="preserve">riſanare gli
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            infermi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6255" xml:space="preserve">Et infra gli infermi, ancora biſogna hauere cura che per uoleruene
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            tenere alcuni pochi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6256" xml:space="preserve">diſutili, che tu nõ nuoca a’piu che ſono atti ad eſſere utili.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6257" xml:space="preserve">Sono ſtati alcuni Principi in Italia, che non hanno uoluto chene le loro Città
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            uadino a uſcio a uſcio a chiedere la limoſina, certi poueracci ſtacciati, eſtropiati,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6258" xml:space="preserve">però ſubito che ui capitauano, era fatto loro comandamento che nõ fuſsino
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            ueduti in detta Città ſtarſi ſenza fare qualche arte, piu che tre giorni, non eſſen-
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            do neſſuno tanto ſtorpiato che non poteſſe in qualche coſa giouare a gli altri
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            huomini con la ſua fatica. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6259" xml:space="preserve">Che piu? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6260" xml:space="preserve">I Ciechi giouano ancora a girare il Fila-
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            toio a funaiuoli, ſe non ad altro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6261" xml:space="preserve">Ma coloro ch’erano oppreſsi del tutto da al-
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            cuna Infermità piu graue, erano dal Magiſtrato de gli ammalati foreſtieri, diſtri
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            buiti per ordine, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6262" xml:space="preserve">dati in cura a Spedalinghi di meno autorità. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6263" xml:space="preserve">Et in queſto
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            modo i detti nõ chiedeuano indarno aiuto a Pietoſi uicini, ne la città reſtaua offe
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            ſa, da la loro puzzolente malattia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6264" xml:space="preserve">In Toſcana per amor di quella antica uene-
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            ratione de la ſantità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6265" xml:space="preserve">de la ueriſsima religione, de la quale ſempre portò il uan
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            to, ſi ueggono Spedali marauiglioſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6266" xml:space="preserve">fatti con incredibile ſpeſa, ne quali a qual
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            ſi uoglia cittadino, o foreſtiero, non manca coſa alcuna, che e’ conoſca apparte-
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            nerſi a la ſua ſanità. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6267" xml:space="preserve">Ma eſsẽdo gli infermi di uarie ſorti, come ſono i lebbroſi,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6268" xml:space="preserve">que’ c’hanno la peſte, che con loro ſimili Veleni di tali malattie ammorbino i
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            ſani, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6269" xml:space="preserve">altri che per dir coſi ſieno atti a guarire. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6270" xml:space="preserve">Vorrei che gli edificij di coſto
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            ro fuſsino diſtinti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6271" xml:space="preserve">Gli antichi dedicauano ad Eſculapio, ad Apolline, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6272" xml:space="preserve">a la Sa
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            lute loro Dij ſimili edificij, cõ le Arti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6273" xml:space="preserve">ſantità de quali penſauano che gli infer-
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            mi recuperaſſero, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6274" xml:space="preserve">manteneſſero la loro ſanità: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6275" xml:space="preserve">edificandoli in luogo del tutto
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            ſaniſsimo, doue ſpiraſsino Venti ſaluberrimi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6276" xml:space="preserve">fuſsino copie d’acque purga-
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            tiſsime, accioche gli infermi condotti in sì fatti luoghi, non tanto per lo aiu-
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            to degli Dij, quanto ancora per la benignità di tali luoghi, ſi riſanaſsino piu
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            preſto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6277" xml:space="preserve">non è marauiglia ſe ſopra ogni altra coſa noi deſidereremo, che i
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            luoghi doue s’habbino a tenere gli ammalati, o publicamente, o priuatamente,
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            fuſsino ſaniſsimi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6278" xml:space="preserve">a queſto effetto ſaranno forſe a propoſito i luoghi aſciutti,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6279" xml:space="preserve">ſaſſoſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6280" xml:space="preserve">agitati continouamente da uenti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6281" xml:space="preserve">non abbruciati da Soli, ma il-
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            luminati di Soli temperati; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6282" xml:space="preserve">concioſia che gli humidi ſieno fomenti di putre-
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            dine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6283" xml:space="preserve">Ma ella è coſa manifeſta, che la Natura in ogni coſa gode del tempera-
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            mento, anzi non è altro la ſanità, che uno temperamento di compleſsione, & </s>
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            le coſe mediocri ſempre dilettano. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6285" xml:space="preserve">In l’altre coſe gli infermi de le infermità,
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            che ſi apiccano, ſi debbono tenere non ſolamente fuori de la Città, ma lon-
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            tani ancora da le ſtrade maeſtre. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6286" xml:space="preserve">Gli altri ſi tenghino ne la Città. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6287" xml:space="preserve">Le ſtanze
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            per tutti coſtoro, ſi debbono ſcompartire, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6288" xml:space="preserve">diſtribuire in modo, che altroue
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            ſtieno gli infermi da guarire: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6289" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6290" xml:space="preserve">altroue, que’ che tu riceueſsi piu toſto per
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            guadargli che per guarirgli, fino a tanto che dura il loro deſtino, comeſono i
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            decrepiti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6291" xml:space="preserve">i Pazzi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6292" xml:space="preserve">Aggiugni che in altri luoghi debbono ſtare le Donne, & </s>
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            in altro gli huomini, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6294" xml:space="preserve">coſi, o uuoi gli infermi, o pure coloro, che gli </s>
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