Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            di pietre, di Vetri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8370" xml:space="preserve">di nicchi, con un certo accommodato componimento’
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            Nerone dicono che fu il primo, che ſaceſſe ſegare i nichi de le perle, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8371" xml:space="preserve">meſco-
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            larli nel Muſaico. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8372" xml:space="preserve">Main queſto ſon differenti l’un da l’altro, che nel Muſaico di
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            rilieuo mettiamo pezzi di pietre maggiori che noi poſsiamo, ma nel Muſaico
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            piano non ſi mettono pezzi quadri, maggiori che ſi ſia una faua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8373" xml:space="preserve">Et quanto e’
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-190-01" xlink:href="note-190-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            ſono piu minuti pezzuoli, tanto piu rendono lo ſplendore ſcintillante, riuerbe-
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            rando quelle faccie i preſi lumi in uarie parti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8374" xml:space="preserve">Sono ancora in queſto differenti
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            che ne lo attaccare quelle, è piu utile lo ſtucco, che ſi fà di gomme; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8375" xml:space="preserve">Eta queſte in
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            piano è piu utile la calcina, che ui ſia meſcolato treuertino peſto come poluere.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8376" xml:space="preserve">Sono alcuni, che al Muſaico piano, uogliono che ſi bagni la calcina più, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8377" xml:space="preserve">più
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-190-02" xlink:href="note-190-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            uolte con acqua bollita, accioche laſciata quella ſalſedine ſia più moruída, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8378" xml:space="preserve">più
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            paſtoſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8379" xml:space="preserve">10 ueggo che ne l’opere del Muſaico di rilieuo, ſono ſtate pulite a la ruo
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            ta pietre duriſsime. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8380" xml:space="preserve">Nel muſaico piano s’appicca l’oro al uetro con calcina di
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            piombo, laquale diuenta piu liquida che qual ſi uoglia Vetro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8381" xml:space="preserve">Tutto quello che
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            noi habbian detto de li intonichi, o corteccie, fa quaſi appropoſito de pauimẽti,
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            de quali habbiã promeſſo di trattare, ſaluo però che ne pauimenti non ſi fanno
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            sì belle pitture, nè sì belli Muſaici, ſe già tu non uuoi che ſi chiami pittura, il fare
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            uno ſmalto di uarij colori, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8382" xml:space="preserve">con ordine diſtinguerlo in ſpatij determinati fra
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            marmo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8383" xml:space="preserve">marmo ad imitatione di pittura. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8384" xml:space="preserve">Faſsi di terra roſſa, di mattoni cotti,
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            di pietra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8385" xml:space="preserve">di ſtiuma di ſerro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8386" xml:space="preserve">tale ſmalto quãdo è aſciuto biſogna che ſi ſchiu
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            mi, ilche ſi fa in queſto modo, habbi una pietra uiua, o piu toſto un Piombo di
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            cinqne peſi, c’habbia la ſaccia ſpianata, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8387" xml:space="preserve">con funi da l’una teſta, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8388" xml:space="preserve">da l’altra ſi tiri
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            innanzi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8389" xml:space="preserve">in dietro tanto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8390" xml:space="preserve">tãto per il pauimento, gettãdoui ſopra rena groſſa
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8391" xml:space="preserve">acqua, che quaſi radendo il pauimento lo puliſca grandemente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8392" xml:space="preserve">non ſi
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            pulirà ſe le linee, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8393" xml:space="preserve">i canti de li intauolati non ſaranno uguali, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8394" xml:space="preserve">conformi, ſe
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            ſarà unto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8395" xml:space="preserve">maſsimo con olio di lino, farà una pelle come un uetro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8396" xml:space="preserve">è mol-
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            to commodo ugnerlo con morchia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8397" xml:space="preserve">con acqua ancora ne la quale ſia ſtata ſpẽ
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            ta calcina, giouerà aſſai ſe tu lo bagnerai più, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8398" xml:space="preserve">più uolte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8399" xml:space="preserve">In tutte queſte coſe
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            che noi habbiamo racconte, ſi ha da fuggire, che in un medeſimo luogo non ſia
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            troppo ſpeſſo un medeſimo colore, nè troppo ſpeſſe le medeſime forme, nè meſ
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            ſe inſieme troppo a caſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8400" xml:space="preserve">Fuggaſi ancora che le commettiture nõ ſieno troppo
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            aperte, tutte le coſe adunqne ſi faranno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8401" xml:space="preserve">ſi metteranno inſieme con gran dili-
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            gentia, accioche tutte le parti d’un tal lauoro moſtrino d’eſſer finite ugualmẽte.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head101" style="it" xml:space="preserve">De le coperture detetti, & de le uolte, & de laſtrichi ſcoperti che cuoprono
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          gl’edificij. Cap. X I.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8403" xml:space="preserve">LE cop erture ancora hanno le loro ricchezze, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8404" xml:space="preserve">bellezze de le impalca-
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            ture, de le Volte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8405" xml:space="preserve">de pauimenti ſcoperti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8406" xml:space="preserve">Sono ancora hoggi nel Porti
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            co di Agrippa Impalcature con traui di Bronzo, lunghe quaranta piedi,
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            opera certo ne laquale non ſaprai di che più ſia da marauigliarſi, o de la ſpeſa, o
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            de lo ingegno del Maeſtro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8407" xml:space="preserve">Nel tempio di Diana Efeſia, come altroue dicem-
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            mo, durò grandiſsimo tempo un palco di Cedro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8408" xml:space="preserve">Racconta Plinio che Sa-
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            auce Re di Colchi, poi che egli hebbe uinto Seſoſtre Re di Egitto, </s>
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