Alberti, Leone Battista, De re aedificatoria, 1485
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              uelim hanc eſſe ædificii partem: quæ totius operis futura ſit baſis
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              Si erit area in montis uertice / aut erit ea quidem exaggeranda ali
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              qua ex parte: aut decuſſo
                <expan abbr="cacumīe">cacumine</expan>
                <expan abbr="præſurgẽtis">præſurgentis</expan>
                <expan abbr="mõtis">montis</expan>
                <expan abbr="coequãda">coequanda</expan>
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              <s id="N400F2D">Hic
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                <expan abbr="proſpiciẽdum">proſpiciendum</expan>
              eſt ut id aggrediamur: quod ſeruata dignitate mo
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              derata et modica fiat cum impenſa atque labore. </s>
              <s id="N400F37">Fortaſſis quidem
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              conducet partem ab ſublimi excidere: et partem accliuam exagge
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              rare: Quam rem bene
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              quiſquis fuit ille architectus apud
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              alacrum hernicam urbem in ſaxeo
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              poſitam effecit. </s>
              <s id="N400F48">Curauit
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              enim ut baſis ſeu arcis / ſeu templa: quæ ſola nunc cæteris
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              ædi
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              ficationibus dirutis uidetur / ex reſciſſisa ſummo uertice
                <expan abbr="fragmẽtis">fragmen
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                tis</expan>
              ſubfirmata et ſubſtrata extaret: Et eo in opere illud eſt / quod
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              maiorem in modum probem: Nam obiecit angulum areæ eo uer
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              ſus unde repens montis pendet: eumque conſolidauit angulum con
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              geſtis prægrandibus immanium fragmentorum fruſtis et mole:
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              Deditque operam componendis lapidibus: ut ſtructuræ ſeruata par
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              ſimonia decorem afferret: Et illius quoque conſilium placuit archi
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              tecti: qui quidem quo loci non uſque adeo tantam lapidis habuerat
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              copiam ſubſtituendo montis pondere aggerem ſtruxerit frequen
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              tibus emiciclis dorſo flexarum linearum intra montem abiiecto:
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              Quæ ſtructura cum grata eſt aſpectu / tum eſt & firmiſſima: tum
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              etiam an impenſarum rationem facit: Nam efficit quidem
                <expan abbr="murũ">murum</expan>
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              non ſolidum / qui tantum habeat uirium / ac ſi penitus fuiſſet ſoli
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              dus / latitudine quanta & flexarum linearum illic ſagictæ ſunt:
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              Vitruuii quoque ratio per placet: quam uideo Romæ paſſim a ue
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              teribus architectis / ac præſertim in tarquinii aggere
                <expan abbr="obſeruatã">obſeruatam</expan>
              ut
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              anterides ſubſtituerentur: Sed non omnibus locis id obſeruarunt
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              ut ſemper inter ſe anterides tantum diſtarent
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              ipſa eſſet alta ſub
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              ſtructio: Sed pro montis firmitate aut / ut ita loquar / labilitate /
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              modo frequentiores: modo rariores poſuerunt: Animaduerti eti
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              am ueteres architectos non
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              proximam propter
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              ſubſtruc
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              tione fuiſſe
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              : ſed pluribus / quaſi gradibus adinfimas uſque
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              radices montis totas rupes firmatas eſſe uoluiſſe ': Quorum ego
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              conſilium minime negligendum puto. </s>
              <s id="N400F95">Ad Peruſiam riuus qui
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              inter lucinium montem & collem urbis fluit / quod aſſiduo collis </s>
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