Alberti, Leone Battista, De re aedificatoria, 1485

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              manitate delectati inter ſe ipſi reges ſtudioſius certare pro
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              greſſi ſunt ad inſaniam uſque pyramidum extollendarum.
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              <s id="N408978">Credo equidem uſum ædificandi præbuiſſe occaſionem ut
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              multa ex parte cernerent quid interſit numero: ordine: po
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              ſitu: facie ue: quæ aſtruerentur uno aut altero commiſiſſe.
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              <s id="N408980">Ac perinde gratioribuſ delectatos ſpernere didiciſſe incon
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              cinniora. </s>
              <s id="N408985">Succeſſit græcia: ea
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              quod ingeniis bonis atque
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              eruditis floreret et fragraret cupiditate ornandi ſui: cum
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              cætera tum et templum
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              primis faciundum curauit. </s>
              <s id="N408994">Hinc
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              cepit aſſyriorum ægyptiorumque opera diligentius ſpecta
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              re / quoad intellexit quidem in iſtiuſmodi laudari magiſ ar
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              tificum
                <expan abbr="manus/q̃">manus / quae</expan>
              opes regias. </s>
              <s id="N4089A1">Nam poſſe quidem magna
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              facere fortunatorum eſt. </s>
              <s id="N4089A6">Pacere autem quæ periti non uitu
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              perent eorum eſt / qui laudem mereantur. </s>
              <s id="N4089AB">ex ea re ſuas eſſe
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              partes inſtituit græcia ſuſcepto in opere id conari / ut quos
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              fortunæ opibus æquare non poſſent: hos quoad in ſe eſſet in
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              genii dotibus ſuperaret. </s>
              <s id="N4089B4">Cepitque uti cæteras artes / ſic et
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              hanc ædificatoriam ipſo ex naturæ gremio petere atque edu
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              cere / totamque tractare / totamque pernoſcere ſagaci ſoler
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              tia proſpiciens perpendenſque. </s>
              <s id="N4089BD">Quid inter ea quæ proben
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              tur ædificia interſit / atque ea quæ minus probentur: Iſta in
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              diſquiſitione nihil prætermiſit. </s>
              <s id="N4089C4">Omnia tentauit naturæ ue
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              ſtigia luſtrans et repetens. </s>
              <s id="N4089C9">paria quidem paribus / recta fle
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              xis / prompta ſubobſcurioribus permiſcendo intuebatur an
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              te quaſi ex maris feminæque connubio tertium quippiam
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              oborietur: quod faceret ad ſpem inſtituti officii: neque de
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              ſtitit etiam in minutiſſimis iterum atque iterum conſide
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              raſſe partes ſingulas / qui dextra ſiniſtris / ſtantia
                <expan abbr="iacẽtibuſ/">iacentibuſ /</expan>
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              proxima diſtantibus
                <expan abbr="conuenirẽt /">conuenirent /</expan>
              adiunxit / detraxit / æqua
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              uit maiora minoribus / ſimilia diſſimilibus / prima ultimis
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              quoad compertum fecit. </s>
              <s id="N4089E4">Laudari aliud in his / que ad uetu
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              ſtatem perferendam quaſi ſtataria conſtituerentur: aliud in
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              his quæ nullam æque ad rem atque ad uenuſtatem fabrica
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              rentur. </s>
              <s id="N4089ED">Hæc illi. </s>
              <s id="N4089F0">Itália tum primum pro
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              frugalitate </s>
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