Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            ſaluo che con le orationi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8890" xml:space="preserve">per potere ſacrificare a Saturno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8891" xml:space="preserve">a Serapi con le pe
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            core, collocarono ilor Tempij fuori de la Cittade. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8892" xml:space="preserve">Ma i noſtri cominciarono
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            a poco a poco a ſeruirſi de le Baſiliche, per ſacrificare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8893" xml:space="preserve">feciono queſto sì perche
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            e’ſi erano auuezzi da principio a ragunarſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8894" xml:space="preserve">a ritrouarſi inſieme ne le Baſili-
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            che de Priuati, sì ancora perche in quelle ſi collocano gli altari ſuſo alto in cam-
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            bio del Tribunale con gran maieſtà, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8895" xml:space="preserve">attorno a gli Altari ancora s’accommoda
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            eccellentemẽte il Coro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8896" xml:space="preserve">Il reſtante de la Baſilica come ſono le Naui, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8897" xml:space="preserve">il portico
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            parte ſtauano apparecchiate a ſeruire a chi paſſeggiaua, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8898" xml:space="preserve">parte a chi ſtaua atten-
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            to a ſacrificij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8899" xml:space="preserve">Aggiungeuaciſi che la uoce del Pontefice mentre ch’egli parlaua
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            ſi comprendeua meglio in una Baſilica cõi palchi di legname, che non faceua ne
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            Tempij in uolta: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8900" xml:space="preserve">Ma di queſte coſe tratteremo altroue, faccia hora a noſtro pro-
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            poſito ch’e’ dicono che a Venere, a Diana, a le Muſe, a le Nimphe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8901" xml:space="preserve">a le Dee più
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            dilicate ſi debbono dedicare Tempij, che con lo eſſer loro uadino imitando
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            quella Virginale ſchiettezza, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8902" xml:space="preserve">quel fiore de la loro età giouenile: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8903" xml:space="preserve">Ma ad Ercole,
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            a Marte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8904" xml:space="preserve">a gli altri Dij maggiori, ſi hanno a dedicare Tempij di ſorte che ſi hab
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            bino ad arrecare indietro per la grauità loro Autorità, più toſto che gratia per la
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            loro bellezza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8905" xml:space="preserve">Vltimamente quel luogo doue tu harai a collocare un Tempio,
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            biſogna che ſia luogo celebrato, Illuſtre(& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8906" xml:space="preserve">come ſi dice) ſuperbo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8907" xml:space="preserve">eſpedito da
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            ogni contagione di ſecolari, perciò habbia dinanzi una ſpatioſa, e degna piazza,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8908" xml:space="preserve">ſia accerchiato di ſtrade larghiſsime, o più preſto di piazze grandiſsime, tal-
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            mente che da ogni banda ſia bello a uedere.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head111" style="it" xml:space="preserve">De le parti, forme, & figure de Tempij, & de le Cappelle, & doue ſi debbino
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          collocare. Cap. IIII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8910" xml:space="preserve">LE parti del tempio ſono due, il portico, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8911" xml:space="preserve">la parte di dentro, ma ſono
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            in queſte molto differenti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8912" xml:space="preserve">Percioche i tempij alcuni ſono tondi, alcuni
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            quadrati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8913" xml:space="preserve">alcuni finalmente di piu facce. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8914" xml:space="preserve">Vedeſi manifeſto che la Natu
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            ra ſi diletta de le coſe tonde, concioſia che le coſe che ſi conducono, ſi generano
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            o ſi fanno mediante la Natura ſon tonde. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8915" xml:space="preserve">Ma che biſogna che io racconti le
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            ſtelle, gli alberi, gli animali, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8916" xml:space="preserve">i nidi loro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8917" xml:space="preserve">ſimili altre coſe di queſto mondo,
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            da che ella uolſe che tutte fuſsino tonde? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8918" xml:space="preserve">Veggiamo ancora che la Natura ſi
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            è dilettata de le coſe che hanno ſei facce. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8919" xml:space="preserve">Percioche le Pecchie, i Calabroni,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8920" xml:space="preserve">ogni altra ſpetie di Veſpe che tu ti uoglia, non hanno imparato a fare quel-
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            le loro ſtanzette ne loro teatri, mai d’altro che di ſei facce. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8921" xml:space="preserve">Termineremo
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            con un cerchio uno ſito tondo d’un tempio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8922" xml:space="preserve">Ne tempij quadri uſarono
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            gli Antichi che la pianta fuſſe una meza uolta piu lunga che larga. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8923" xml:space="preserve">Altri l’u-
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            ſarono il terzo piu lunga che larga. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8924" xml:space="preserve">Et altri uolſono che la fuſſe lunga due
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            larghezze, ma in queſte piante quadrate ſarà grandiſsimo difetto di bruttez-
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            za ſe le cantonate non ſaranno tutte in ſquadra. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8925" xml:space="preserve">Gli antichi nel farli di piu
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            facce, gli faceuano, o di ſei, o di otto, o ueramente di dieci facce. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8926" xml:space="preserve">Di tut-
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            te queſte coſi fatte piante è di neceſsità, che i loro angoli ſi terminino den-
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            tro ad un cerchio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8927" xml:space="preserve">da quello, è forza ſi tirino diritti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8928" xml:space="preserve">percioche il </s>
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