Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            te, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7561" xml:space="preserve">che non ſcacci uia le non ornate, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7562" xml:space="preserve">abbiette, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7563" xml:space="preserve">che non ſi auegga del man
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            camento di qualunche coſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7564" xml:space="preserve">che non confesſi, che gli manchi uno certo che,
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            che ſe quella tale opera l'haueſſe ſarebbe piu gratioſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7565" xml:space="preserve">piu degna. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7566" xml:space="preserve">Biſogna a-
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            dunque ſcerre, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7567" xml:space="preserve">andar principalmente dietro a una dignisſima bellezza, et co-
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            loro maſsimo, che uogliono, che le loro coſe ſieno grate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7568" xml:space="preserve">Quãto i noſtri mag-
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            giori, huomini prudentiſsimi ſtimarono, che ſi doueſſe hauer cura a queſta coſa,
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            lo dimoſtrano, sì l'altre coſe, sì ancora le leggi, la militia, le coſe ſacre, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7569" xml:space="preserve">tutte le
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            coſe publiche. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7570" xml:space="preserve">Veramente egli è coſa incredibile a dire quanto e' s'affatificaro-
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            no di farle ornatiſsime, come ſe gli haueſsino uoluto, che e' ſi fuſſe creduto, che
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            leuati, di sì ſatte coſe (ſenza lequali appena potrebbe ſtare la uita de gli huomi-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-166-02" xlink:href="note-166-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            ni)gli apparati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7571" xml:space="preserve">la Pompa, elle ſarebbono ſtate come un certo che di ſciocco,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7572" xml:space="preserve">di ſcimunito. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7573" xml:space="preserve">Ne lo alzar gli occhi al cielo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7574" xml:space="preserve">nel riſguardare le marauiglio-
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            ſe opere di Dio, ci marauigliamo piu di lui, mediante le coſe belle, che noi ueg-
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            giamo, che mediante la utilità, che ne ſentiamo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7575" xml:space="preserve">Ma perche uò io dicendo ſimil
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            coſe? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7576" xml:space="preserve">La Natura ſteſſa de le coſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7577" xml:space="preserve">ilche ſi può uedere per tutto, non reſta mai l'un
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-166-03" xlink:href="note-166-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            dì piu che l'altro di ſcherzare cõ laſciuia, dietro al troppo piacere de le bellezze.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7578" xml:space="preserve">Laſcio l'altre coſe indietro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7579" xml:space="preserve">quel che ella fà nel dipingere i fiori, che ſe ſimili
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            bellezze ſi deſiderano in coſa alcuna. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7580" xml:space="preserve">L'edificio ueramẽte èuna certa coſa, che
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            non può ſtare ſenza eſſe in modo alcuno, talmente che & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7581" xml:space="preserve">coloro, che ſanno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7582" xml:space="preserve">
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            gli ignoranti ancora non ne reſtino offeſi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7583" xml:space="preserve">Che coſa è quella, che ne faccia muo
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-166-04" xlink:href="note-166-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            uere per una gran maſſa di pietre mal formata, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7584" xml:space="preserve">male acconcia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7585" xml:space="preserve">Se non che
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            tanto quanto ella è maggiore, tanto piu biaſimiamo la ſpeſa gittata uia? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7586" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7587" xml:space="preserve">uitu-
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            periamo l'inconſiderata libidine de le ammontate pietre? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7588" xml:space="preserve">l'hauer ſatisfatto a la
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            neceſsità è coſa leggiere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7589" xml:space="preserve">di poco momento, l'hauer hauuto riſpetto a la com-
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            modità, nõ è coſa gratio ſa doue la bruttezza de l'opera ti offenda. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7590" xml:space="preserve">Aggiugneſi
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            che queſta ſola de la quale parliamo arreca non piccolo aiuto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7591" xml:space="preserve">a la commodi-
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            tà, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7592" xml:space="preserve">a la eternità. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7593" xml:space="preserve">Percioche chi ſarà quello, che nieghi, che non ſia molto piu
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            cõmodo l'habitare in un'ediſicio ben fatto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7594" xml:space="preserve">adorno, che raccorſi dentro a mu-
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            raglie brutte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7595" xml:space="preserve">abbiette? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7596" xml:space="preserve">O qual coſa ſi può fare da neſſuna arte de gli huomini
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            tanto ſtabile, che ſia affortiſicata à baſtanza, contro all'ingiuria de gli huomini?
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            Etla bellezza ſola impetrerà gratia da g li huomini ingiurioſi, che e' modereran
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            no le ſtizze loro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7598" xml:space="preserve">ſofferiranno che non le ſia fatto uillania. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7599" xml:space="preserve">Ma io uoglio ardire
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            di dire queſto, Neſſuno lauoro per neſſun'altra coſa può giamai eſſer piu ſicuro
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            da le ingiurie de gli huomini, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7600" xml:space="preserve">parimente illeſo, quanto che per la dignità; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7601" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7602" xml:space="preserve">
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            uenuſtà de la ſua bellezza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7603" xml:space="preserve">In queſto ſi debbe porre ogni cura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7604" xml:space="preserve">ogni diligen
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            tia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7605" xml:space="preserve">a queſto referirſi ogni ſpendio; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7606" xml:space="preserve">di maniera che quelle coſe, che tu farai,
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            ſieno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7607" xml:space="preserve">vtili, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7608" xml:space="preserve">commode, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7609" xml:space="preserve">ancora principalmente ornatiſsime, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7610" xml:space="preserve">perciò
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            gratioſiſsime, talmente che chi le riſguarda habbia ad hauer caro, che e' non ſi
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            ſia fatta in alcuna coſa maggiore ſpeſa, che in queſta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7611" xml:space="preserve">Ma che coſa ſia Bellez-
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            za, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7612" xml:space="preserve">ornamento da per ſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7613" xml:space="preserve">che differentia ſia infra di lo
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            ro, forſe lo inten-
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            deremo piu apertamente con lo animo, che à me non ſarà facile di eſplicarlo
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            con le parole. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7614" xml:space="preserve">Ma noi per eſſer breui la diſſiniremo in queſto modo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7615" xml:space="preserve">dire-
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            mo, che la Bellezza è vn conſerto di tutte le parti accommodate inſieme cõ pro-
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            portione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7616" xml:space="preserve">diſcorſo, in quella coſa, in che le ſi ritruouano; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7617" xml:space="preserve">di maniera, che </s>
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