Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            riſpetto de le ſporcitie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8661" xml:space="preserve">de le immonditie; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8662" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8663" xml:space="preserve">quelle che ſononele montagne
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            uorrei io chefuſsino collocate in luogo piano, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8664" xml:space="preserve">uguale riſpetto a le ſtrade, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8665" xml:space="preserve">a
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            gliedificij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8666" xml:space="preserve">A Cicerone pareua che Capua fuſſe da anteporſi a Roma, perche
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            ella non era impiccata ſu peri colli, nè interrotta da le ualli, ma piana & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8667" xml:space="preserve">aperta.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8668" xml:space="preserve">Aleſſandro laſciò difornire la incominciata Città ne l’Iſola del Faro, luogo cer-
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            to per altro forte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8669" xml:space="preserve">commodiſsimo: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8670" xml:space="preserve">ma conobbe che ella non ui ſi poteua allar
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            gare di ſpatio da diuentare grande. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8671" xml:space="preserve">Nèpenſo che quì ſi habbia da laſciare in die-
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            tro, che il grandiſsimo ornamento de la città, è la moltitudine de cittadini. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8672" xml:space="preserve">Io
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            ho letto che Tigrane, quando egli edificò la città Tigranocerta, coſtrinſe una
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            grandiſsima moltitudine d’huomini ricchiſsimi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8673" xml:space="preserve">honoratiſsimi, ad andare con
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            tutti i loro beni ad habitarla, hauendo mandato uno editto, che tutte quelle co
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            ſe, che e’non ui conduceſsino, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8674" xml:space="preserve">fuſsino ritrouate altroue, fuſsino applicate al
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            fiſco. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8675" xml:space="preserve">Queſto medeſimo faranno uolentieri da per loro i conuicini, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8676" xml:space="preserve">gli altri
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            foreſtieri, quando e’ſaperanno d’hauerui a ſtare ſani, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8677" xml:space="preserve">dilicatamente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8678" xml:space="preserve">abbon
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            dantemente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8679" xml:space="preserve">infra gente ben coſtumata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8680" xml:space="preserve">Ma arrecheranno principaliſsi-
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            mo ornamento a le città, eſsi ſiti de le ſtrade, de le piazze, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8681" xml:space="preserve">di ciaſcuno altro edi
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            ficio, ſe ſaranno condotti, conformati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8682" xml:space="preserve">collocati tutti commodamente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8683" xml:space="preserve">bene
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            ciaſcuno ſecondo il biſogno: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8684" xml:space="preserve">Percioche tolto uia l’ordine da le coſe, non ſarà
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            certo coſa alcuna, che dimoſtri d’eſſere commoda, grata, o degna. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8685" xml:space="preserve">Ad una
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            ben coſtumata, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8686" xml:space="preserve">ordinata Città, dice Platone, biſogna prouedere per uia di leg
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            ge, che non ui ſi introduchino le delicature de foreſtieri; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8687" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8688" xml:space="preserve">che neſſuno citta-
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            dino, ſe non finiti i quaranta anni, poſſa andare fuori. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8689" xml:space="preserve">Et che i foreſtieri che
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            per attendere a gli ſtudij ſaranno ſtati raccolti ne la città, poi che haranno fatto
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            proſitto, ſe ne rimandino a caſa loro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8690" xml:space="preserve">Et queſto ſi fa, perche egli accade che per
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            contagione de foreſtieri i Cittadini ſi ſdimenticano di dì in dì di quella parſimo-
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            nia, con laquale furono alleuati da lor padri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8691" xml:space="preserve">comincian@ ad hauere in odio
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            quelle uſanze, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8692" xml:space="preserve">coſtumi antichi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8693" xml:space="preserve">La qual coſa è potisima cagione, che le Cit-
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            tà uadino peggiorando. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8694" xml:space="preserve">Racconta Plutarco che gli Epidauri hauendo auuer-
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            tito, che iloro cittadini diuentauano cattill per il commertio ch’egli haueuano
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            con gli Illiri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8695" xml:space="preserve">imparauano co
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            oro peruerſi coſtumi ad innouare ſempre
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            qual coſa ne la loro città,
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            pettiti per tal conto eleſſono fra tutta la loro mol
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            titudine un Citcadino per anno, huomo graue, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8696" xml:space="preserve">circonſpetto, che andaſſe a gli
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            Illirici, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8697" xml:space="preserve">comperaſſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8698" xml:space="preserve">conduceſſe tutte quelle coſe, che qual ſi uoglia cittadino
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            gli commetteſſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8699" xml:space="preserve">In ſomma tutti i ſauij conuengono in queſto ch’e’ uogliono,
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            ch’e’ ſi habbia una grandiſsima cura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8700" xml:space="preserve">diligentia, che la città non ſi corrompa
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            per il commertio de foreſtieri, che ui capitano; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8701" xml:space="preserve">nè io penſo che e’ſia però da imi
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            tare coloro, che non uogliono che ui capiti alcuna ſorte, o qualità d’huomini.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8702" xml:space="preserve">Appreſſo de Greci, ſecondo il coſtume antico, era uſanza di non riceuere den-
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            tro ne la città que’ popoli che non erano in lega inſieme, nè per queſto anche
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            inimici, ſe taluolta e’ ueniſſero armati perauentura a caſa l’un de l’altro: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8703" xml:space="preserve">ma
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            ne anche ſcacciarli, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8704" xml:space="preserve">però gli alloggiauano lungo le mura, non lungi dal
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            Mercato de le coſe da uenderſi, acciò mediante quelle i foreſtieri ſi poteſsi-
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            no rinfreſcare, ſe di coſa alcuna haueſſero di biſogno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8705" xml:space="preserve">i cittadini poteſsino ſta
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            re ſicuri da pericoli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8706" xml:space="preserve">Maio lodo ueramente i Cartagineſi, percioche </s>
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