Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            to tanto tumultuariamẽte che ui meſlono ſino a le ſtatue leuate da Sepolcri, fuſ-
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            ſe per tal caſo bello? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7929" xml:space="preserve">cioè per eſſer pieno di ſtrage di ſtatue? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7930" xml:space="preserve">Coſi per il cõtrario
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            ne diletta di riguardare le alzate mura de gli antichi edificij contadineſchi, fatte
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            di pietre incerte di minute, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7931" xml:space="preserve">di ragunaticci douegli ordini ſtãno conguagliati,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-175-01" xlink:href="note-175-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7932" xml:space="preserve">dipinti a uicenda di colori bianchi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7933" xml:space="preserve">neri, di maniera che e’ pare cheſecõdo
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            la piaceuolezza del’opera, e’non ui ſi poſſa deſiderare piu altro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7934" xml:space="preserve">Ma queſto sì
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            appartiene forſe piu a quella parte de le mura, che ſi dice lo Intonicare, che a lo
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            alzare la uera ſaldezza de le Mura. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7935" xml:space="preserve">Finalmente tutte queſte coſe, che ſono aſſai
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            ſi debbono diſtribuir di maniera, che e’ non uiſia cominciata coſa alcuna, ſe nõ
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-175-02" xlink:href="note-175-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            quelle, che furono da prima deſtinate da la arte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7936" xml:space="preserve">dal conſiglio, non ui ſia accre-
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            ſciuto coſa alcuna oltre a quelle, che ricerca la ragione de le coſe principiã
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            te, nõ
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            ui ſia laſciata coſa alcuna per ſinita che non ſia con grandiſsima cura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7937" xml:space="preserve">diligen-
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            tia ſinita, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7938" xml:space="preserve">perſetta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7939" xml:space="preserve">Ma il principale ornamento de le Mura, e de le coperture,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7940" xml:space="preserve">maſsimo de le Volte è eſſo intonico. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7941" xml:space="preserve">(Io ne eccettuo ſemprei Collonnati)
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-175-03" xlink:href="note-175-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            Et può certamente queſto Intonico eſſer di piu ſorti, o e’ ſarà bianco ſtietto, o e’
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            ſarà pieno di ſtatue, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7942" xml:space="preserve">di Stucchi, ò di pitture, o di intauolati, o di coſe commeſ-
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            ſe a piano, o di Muſaico, o d’un meſcuglio di tutte queſte coſe.</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head96" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Con che modi le Macchine, & i peſi de grandiſsimi ſaſſi ſi muouino da luogo a luogo, o ſi ſol-
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          lieuino in alto. Cap. VI.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7944" xml:space="preserve">DI queſti habbiamo a trattare, quali e’ ſieno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7945" xml:space="preserve">come ſatti, ma da che noi
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            habbiamo detto del muouere le pietre grandiſsime, queſto luogo ne au-
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            uertiſce, che noi raccontiamo prima in che modo tãto gran macchine ſi
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-175-05" xlink:href="note-175-05a" xml:space="preserve">25</note>
            muouino, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7946" xml:space="preserve">in che modo, elle ſi ponghino in luoghi diſſiciliſsimi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7947" xml:space="preserve">Scriue Plutar-
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            co che Archimede in Siracuſa tiraua per mezzo la piazza una Naue da carico
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            carica con la mano, quaſi come un Cauallo per la briglia, ingegno Matema-
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            tico, Ma noi andremo ſolamente dietro a quelle coſe, che ſi accommodino a
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            biſogni. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7948" xml:space="preserve">Dipoi ne dichiareremo alcune altre, ondei Dotti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7949" xml:space="preserve">acuti ingegni
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            potranno da per loro ſenza oſcurità conoſcere queſta tal coſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7950" xml:space="preserve">Io truouo che
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            Plinio dice che la Aguglia condotta a Tebe da Fenice, fu condotta per una
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            ſoſſa tirata dal Nilo, meſſa detta Aguglia ſopra Nauilij carichi di Zauorra,
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            accioche ſcaricata dipoi detta Zauorra, portaſſe uia il ſolleuato peſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7951" xml:space="preserve">Truo-
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            uo in Ammiano Marcellino una Aguglia eſſere ſtata condotta per il Nilo con
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            una Naue di trecento remi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7952" xml:space="preserve">poſta ſopra curri preſſo a Roma a tre miglia, eſ-
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            ſere ſtata tirata in Circo Maſsimo per la porta che ua ad Hoſtia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7953" xml:space="preserve">che nel riz-
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            zarla durarono fatica, parecchi migliaia di huomini, eſſendo tutto il Circo ri-
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            pieno di inſtrumenti di grandiſsime Traui, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7954" xml:space="preserve">di canapi groſsiſsimi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7955" xml:space="preserve">Leggia-
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            mo in Vitruuio che Cteſifone, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7956" xml:space="preserve">Metagene ſuo figliuolo conduſſono in Efeſo
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            colonne, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7957" xml:space="preserve">architraui preſo il modo dal Cilindro, con il quale gli Antichi in-
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            ſegnauano pareggiare il terreno, concioſia che egli impiombò in ciaſcuna de
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            le teſte de le Pietre uno perno di ferro, che uſciua fuori, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7958" xml:space="preserve">ſeruiua per fuſo, & </s>
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            meſſe ne detti perni di quà, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7960" xml:space="preserve">di là alcune ruote tanto grandi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7961" xml:space="preserve">tanto larghe,
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            che dette pietre ſtauano ſolleuate ſopra di eſsi perni. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7962" xml:space="preserve">Dipoi col girare de </s>
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