Lorini, Buonaiuto , Le fortificationi, old version (312 p.), 1609

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              <s>FORTIFICATIONIDI BVONAIVTO LORININOBILE FIORENTINO.</s>
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            <p type="head">
              <s>LIBRO TERZO.</s>
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              <s>Doue ſi moſtrano le diuerſità delle difeſe antiche
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              con le moderne, & ſi dichiarano le cauſe di
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              tali ſue diuerſità.</s>
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              <s>
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              Ragionamento intorno all'inuentioni del fortificare.
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              <s>CAP. I.</s>
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              <s>SE VORREMO conſiderare alle fatiche di già fatte, nel moſtrare il modo del
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              Fortificare, troueremo, non eſſere ancora arriuati a mezo del camino, cioè a quel
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              fine a cui deuono riguardare quelli, che vogliono fare profeſſione di Ingegnieri
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              Militari; perche quello, che preſume eſſere nel numero di chi sà ordinare, e co­
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              mandare la fabrica d'vna Fortezza, douerà ſapere beniſſimo molte forme di di­
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              feſe, poi che nell'eſſequire non gli ponno ſeruire a pieno gli auertimenti dati
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              per l'vniuerſale intelligenza; perche il più delle volte occorre obedire a' ſiti ſtra­
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              uaganti; nondimeno co'l mezo del preſente Libro cercheremo di ſupplire a
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              quanto può occorrere. </s>
              <s>Benche eſſendo l'occaſioni così diuerſe, ſia coſa difficile poterlo fare compi­
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              tamente, dipendendo da queſta difficoltà la nobiltà della ſcienza, per la quale biſogna che la viuacità
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              dell'ingegno, di chi douerà operare, ſuppliſca a quello che con l'iſteſſa ſcienza non ſi può inſegna­
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              re; e queſto per douerſi molte volte improuiſamente riſoluere, & ordinare difeſe inaſpettate. </s>
              <s>Et pe­
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              rò tanto quanto le deliberationi ſaranno più improuiſe, & ordinate con buono fondamento, tanto
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              più ſarà degno di lode, e d'honore il ſuo autore; ſtante che trattandoſi di perdita, o conſeruatione
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              di Stati, e di popoli, non sò qual'altro officio, o comando poſſa eſſer a queſto ſuperiore, e per conſe­
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              quenza il più nobile. </s>
              <s>E per eſſequire quanto ſi è propoſto, moſtraremo la diuerſità delle Fortezze co'l
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              diſcorrere alquanto intorno a i primi principij dell'vſo del fortificare, hor per vedere in tal materia
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              quali foſſero le cauſe, per le quali i noſtri primi padri diedero principio a fabricare le difeſe trouere­
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              mo, che la neceſſità li in duſſe, a ciò fare per difenderſi, non ſolo contro alle ingiurie de tempi, ma
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              an­
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              cora dalli animali nociui. </s>
              <s>Onde contro alle ingiurie del tempo, che ſono le pioggie, il freddo, & il cal­
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              do fabricarono i loro primi palazzi, li quali non furono altro, che
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              capanne, fatte di legname: &
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              contra gli animali, fu di cingerſi allo intorno con vno ſteccato fatto pur di legname, con quell'ordine
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              di tagliarlo, & di metterlo in opera, che la neceſſità li moſtraua, onde da contrarij tali, poſſiamo cre­
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              dere, che la congregatione, & conſortio de gli huomini haueſſe principio, per poterſi l'vno
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              l'altro
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              preſtare aiuto, che poi moltiplicando, ſi fabricarono le Caſtella, & le Città con muraglie di pietre, &
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              bittume, che era ſchiuma d'acqua, che nell'Egitto faceua l'effetto della calcina, & queſte non per di­
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              fenderſi più da ſaluatichi animali, come prima, ma dalli ſteſſi huomini, fattiſi per l'ingordigia, & per
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              la rapacità delle altrui facultà, aſſai peggiori de gli ſteſſi animali, onde poi moltiplicando le genti, &
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              l'ambitione del dominarſi l'vno l'altro, n'è accaduto, che l'huomo
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              ha il maggior nimico dello ſteſ
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              ſo huomo, doue
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              ſi
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              , ne ſi procura altro, ſe
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              la deſtrutione del propio genere. </s>
              <s>Coſa
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              alla natura di tutti gli animali. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Laōde">Laonde</expan>
              veggiamo in queſti noſtri
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              , che
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              baſtano per difenderſi le
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              Caſtella fabricate
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              muraglie groſiſſime, co' torrioni, & meze lune <21> reſiſtere, come prima faceuano
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                <expan abbr="cōtro">contro</expan>
              li arieti, & torri
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              , & a diuerſe altre machine bellice. </s>
              <s>Ma hoggi
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              fabricare, oltre alle </s>
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