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[165.] COSE PIV NOTABILI.
[166.] TAVOLA DELLE
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[170.] REGISTRO. ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTVXYZ, AA BB CC DD. Tutti ſono Quaderni, eccetto D D, ch’è Terno. In Venetia, Appreſſo Franceſco de’ Franceſchi, Seneſe. MDLXV.
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head89" xml:space="preserve">DELLA AR CHITETTVRA
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          DI LEONBATISTA
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          ALBERTI.</head>
          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head90" style="it" xml:space="preserve">LIBRO SESTO,</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head91" style="it" xml:space="preserve">De ia difficultà, & de la ragione de l'impreſa de l' Autore, donde e' raccoglie quanto ctu-
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          dio, fatica, & induſtria egli habbia poſta in ſiriuere queſte coſe. Cap. I.</head>
          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7484" xml:space="preserve">NE cinque paſſaſſati libri habbiamo trattato de diſegni, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7485" xml:space="preserve">de la ma
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            teria de le opere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7486" xml:space="preserve">de la moltitudine de Maeſtri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7487" xml:space="preserve">di quelle co-
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            ſe, ch e pareua ſi apparteneſſero a bene ſtabilire gli ediſicij publi
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            ci, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7488" xml:space="preserve">priuati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7489" xml:space="preserve">i ſacri ancora, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7490" xml:space="preserve">i ſecolari; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7491" xml:space="preserve">di maniera che egli ha-
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            ueſsino a eſſere atti da poter reggere contro le ingiurie de tẽpi,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7492" xml:space="preserve">accommodati ciaſcun di loro, a loro oſſicij, ſecondo che ricer-
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            cano i temporali, i luoghi, gli huomini, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7493" xml:space="preserve">le facende, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7494" xml:space="preserve">ne parlammo con quella
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            diligentia, quale tu puoi uedere in detti libri, talmente che nel trattare di ſimili
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            coſe non la deſidererai molto maggiore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7495" xml:space="preserve">Cõ fatica, o Dio piu grande, che io cer
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-164-04" xlink:href="note-164-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            to alcuna uolta, poi che haueuo preſo tale aſſunto, non harei forſe uoluto. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7496" xml:space="preserve">Oc-
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            correuommi certo continoue diſſicultadi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7497" xml:space="preserve">de lo eſplicare le coſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7498" xml:space="preserve">del ritro-
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            uare i nomi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7499" xml:space="preserve">del trattare de la materia, che mi sbigottiuano, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7500" xml:space="preserve">mi faceuano ri-
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            tirare in dietro da l'impreſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7501" xml:space="preserve">Da l'altro canto quella ragione che mi haueua in
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            clinato a dare principio a l'opera, la medeſima mi richiamaua, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7502" xml:space="preserve">mi confortaua a
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-164-05" xlink:href="note-164-05a" xml:space="preserve">25</note>
            ſeguitarla. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7503" xml:space="preserve">Percioche e' mi ſapeua male, che tante gran coſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7504" xml:space="preserve">tanto eccellenti
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            auuertimenti de gli Scrittori, ſi perdeſsino per la ingiuria de tempi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7505" xml:space="preserve">di maniera,
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            che a pena un ſolo di sì gran naufragio, cioè Vitruuio ci fuſſe rimaſto; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7506" xml:space="preserve">Scrittore
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            ueramente, che ſapeua ogni coſa, ma per la lunghezza del tempo in modo gua-
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            ſto, che in molti luoghi, ui mancano molte coſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7507" xml:space="preserve">in molti ancora molte piu co
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-164-06" xlink:href="note-164-06a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            ſe ui ſi deſiderono. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7508" xml:space="preserve">Oltra di queſto ci era ancora, che egli non haueua ſcritto
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            molto ornatamente. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7509" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che egli parlaua, di maniera, che a Latini pa-
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            reua che e' parlaſſe Greco, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7510" xml:space="preserve">a Greci pareua che egli parlaſſe Latino; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7511" xml:space="preserve">Ma la coſa
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            ſteſſa nel dimoſtrarciſi fa teſtimonianza, che egli non parlò nè Latino, nèGre-
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            co; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7512" xml:space="preserve">di modo che egli è ragioneuole, che egli non ſcriueſſe a noi, poiche egli ſcriſ-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-164-07" xlink:href="note-164-07a" xml:space="preserve">35</note>
            ſe di maniera, che noi non lo intendiamo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7513" xml:space="preserve">Reſtauanci gli eſempi de le coſe
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            antiche ancora ne tempi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7514" xml:space="preserve">ne teatri, da lequali come da perfetti Maeſtri ſi po-
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            teuano imparare molte coſe, ma io le uedeuo non ſenza mie lacrime cõſumarſi
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            di giorno in giorno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7515" xml:space="preserve">Et uedeuo coloro, che per auentura edificauono in que
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            ſti tempi, andare piu preſto dietro a le pazzie de moderni, che dilettarſi de la
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-164-08" xlink:href="note-164-08a" xml:space="preserve">40</note>
            uerità de le opere lodatiſsime. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7516" xml:space="preserve">Per le quali coſe, non era neſſuno che negaſſe
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            che queſta parte de la uita, per dire coſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7517" xml:space="preserve">de la cognitione non fuſſe per ſpe-
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            gnerſi del tutto in breue tempo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7518" xml:space="preserve">Et però eſſendo le coſe così, Io non poteuo
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            fare che io non andaſſe penſando ſpeſſo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7519" xml:space="preserve">piu, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7520" xml:space="preserve">piu uolte meco eſaminando
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            di deſcriuere dette coſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7521" xml:space="preserve">Et ne lo andare eſaminando coſe tanto grandi, </s>
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