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            le habitationi de gli huomini; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8803" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8804" xml:space="preserve">fece in breue tempo la coſa tanto progreſſo, che
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            ne ſondamenti d’un Tempio, eſſendo la Cittade per ancora maſſaia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8805" xml:space="preserve">ſtretta ne
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            lo ſpendere, il Re Nũma conſumò quattromila libbre d’Argento. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8806" xml:space="preserve">Io certo gran
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            demente lodo l’impreſa di coſi fatto Principe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8807" xml:space="preserve">percioch’egli hebbe conſideratio
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            ne, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8808" xml:space="preserve">riſpetto: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8809" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8810" xml:space="preserve">a la dignità de la Città, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8811" xml:space="preserve">attribuì molto a la reuerẽtia, che ſi de
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-208-01" xlink:href="note-208-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            ne a li Dii, da quali certo douiamo riconoſcere il tutto. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8812" xml:space="preserve">Ancor che e’ſia ſtata
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            openione di alcuni, cheſono ſtati reputati ſaui, ch’e’ non fuſſe bene cõſecrare, nè
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            dedicare Tempij a li Dij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8813" xml:space="preserve">dicono che andando dietro a tale oppenione Serſe,
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            abbruciò i Tempij de la Grecia, parendoli male che i Greci haueſſero rinchiuſi
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            gli Dij entro a le mura, a quali debbono eſſere aperte tutte le coſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8814" xml:space="preserve">a quali il
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            Mondo ha a ſeruire per tempio, ma torniamo al noſtro propoſito.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head110" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Con quanto ingegno, cura, & dilgentia ſi debba collocare un Tempio, & adornare, a quali
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          Dij, & doue ſi ha a porre, & de uarij modi de ſacrificij. Cap. III.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8816" xml:space="preserve">IN tutta l’arte del fabbricare non è coſa alcuna doue biſogni hauere maggio-
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            re ingegno, cura, induſtria, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8817" xml:space="preserve">diligentia, che nel porre, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8818" xml:space="preserve">adornare un tẽpio,
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            perche laſciando ſtare che un Tempio certo ben fatto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8819" xml:space="preserve">bene adorno
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            ſia ueramente il maggiore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8820" xml:space="preserve">il principale ornamento che habbia una Città,
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            egli certo è pur ueramente la caſa de gli Dij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8821" xml:space="preserve">Et ſe noi adorniamo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8822" xml:space="preserve">paria-
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            mo dilicatiſsimamente le caſe doue hanno ad habitare i Re, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8823" xml:space="preserve">gli huomini,
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            grandi, che faren noi a quelle de ſuperni Dij? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8824" xml:space="preserve">i quali uogliamo che inuocati
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            uenghino a noſtri ſacrificij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8825" xml:space="preserve">eſaudiſchino le noſtre preci, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8826" xml:space="preserve">le noſtre oratio-
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            ni, che ſe bene gli Dij non ſtimeranno queſte coſe caduche, da gli huomini
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            ſtimate aſſai, ſi moueranno non dimeno da la purità dele coſe ſplendide, & </s>
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            da quella ueneratione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8828" xml:space="preserve">reuerentia, che ſi harà uerſo di loro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8829" xml:space="preserve">Certamente che
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            per indirizzare gli huomini a la pietà, ſono molto a propoſito i Tempij, i qua-
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            li dilettino ſommamente gli animi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8830" xml:space="preserve">gli intrattenghino con gratia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8831" xml:space="preserve">mara-
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            uiglia di ſe ſteſsi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8832" xml:space="preserve">Vſauano di dire gli Antichi che al’hora ſi rendeua honore
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            a la Pietà quando che ſi frequentauano i Tempij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8833" xml:space="preserve">Et perciò uorrei io che
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            nel Tempio ſuſſe ueramente tanto di bellezza che e’non ſe ne poteſſe imagi-
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            nare in alcuno altro luogo alcuna maggiore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8834" xml:space="preserve">uorrei che e’fuſſe da ogni par-
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            te coſi ordinato che e’porgeſſe a que’ che ui entrano dentro ſtupefatti, ſpauen-
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            to, per la marauiglia de le coſe degne, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8835" xml:space="preserve">eccellenti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8836" xml:space="preserve">che a gran pena ſi ri-
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            teneſſero, che non diceſſero con marauiglia alzando la uoce queſto certo è
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            luogo degno di Dio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8837" xml:space="preserve">Strabone dice che i Mileſij feciono il Tempio tanto
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            grande, che per la ſua grandezza non lo poterono coprire di tetto. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8838" xml:space="preserve">Ilche io
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            non approuo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8839" xml:space="preserve">I Samij ſi gloriauano d’hauere un Tempio maggiore di tutti gli
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            altri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8840" xml:space="preserve">Non mi diſpiace già che e’ ſi debbino collocare talmente che a gran fa
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            tica ſi poſsino accreſcere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8841" xml:space="preserve">L’ornamento certo è una coſa infinita, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8842" xml:space="preserve">ſempre
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            ne Tempijancor piccoli rimane qual coſa che e’ti pare che, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8843" xml:space="preserve">ui ſi poſſa, & </s>
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            ui ſi debba aggiugnere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8845" xml:space="preserve">Nondimeno a me piacono aſſai quei Tempij, che
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            ſecondo la grandezza de la Città, tu non gli deſiderereſti maggiori, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8846" xml:space="preserve">infra
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            l’altre coſe mi offende aſſai la ſmiſurata grandezza de Tetti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8847" xml:space="preserve">Ma ſopra </s>
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