Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            menti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9614" xml:space="preserve">Dello adornare le mura de tempii ſacri, altri altrimenti hanno giudi-
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            cato, a Spiga in A ſia, furono alcuni che addornarono le mura del Tempio cõ pie
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            tre pulitisſime, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9615" xml:space="preserve">ne le commettiture fra l’una & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9616" xml:space="preserve">l’altra meſſono oro masſiccio.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9617" xml:space="preserve">In Elide al tempio di Minerua dicono che il fratello di Fidia fece uno intonico
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            con calcina ſpenta con zafferano & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9618" xml:space="preserve">latte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9619" xml:space="preserve">I Re di Egitto cinſono atorno il Se-
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            polcro Simandio per ſotterrarui le concubine di Gioue, d’un cerchio d’oro alto
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            un cubito, cioè tre quarti di braccio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9620" xml:space="preserve">di circuito di cubiti trecento ſeſſantacin-
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            que, accioche in qual s’è l’uno de cubiti fusſi in ſcritto un giorno de l’anno.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9621" xml:space="preserve">Queſte coſe feciono coſtoro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9622" xml:space="preserve">altri feciono al contrario. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9623" xml:space="preserve">Cicerone ſeguen-
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            do l’openione di Platone, giudicò che ei fuſſe bene auuertire con legge i ſuoi,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-242-02" xlink:href="note-242-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            che laſciata da parte ogni ſorte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9624" xml:space="preserve">ogni dilicatezza di adornamenti ne tempii, ſi
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            ingegnasſino di hauerlo innanzi tratto candidisſimo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9625" xml:space="preserve">Nientedimanco diſ-
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            ſe facciaſi bellisſimo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9626" xml:space="preserve">A me certo ſi perſuaderia facilmente che a Dio ottimo
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            fuſſe coſa gratisſima la purità & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9627" xml:space="preserve">la ſimplicità del colore, ſi come gli è la purità de
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            la uita. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9628" xml:space="preserve">Et non è coſa conueniente che ne Tempii ſtieno coſe, che ſolleuino gli ani
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-242-03" xlink:href="note-242-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            mi de gli huomini da penſieri de la religione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9629" xml:space="preserve">gli uoltino a uarii piaceri & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9630" xml:space="preserve">dilet
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            tationi de ſenſi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9631" xml:space="preserve">Ma io penſo bene che colui ſarà molto lodato, ilquale, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9632" xml:space="preserve">ne le
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            coſe publiche & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9633" xml:space="preserve">ne Tempii ſacri, pnr che non ſi diſcoſti punto da la grauità, uo-
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            glia che le mura; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9634" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9635" xml:space="preserve">le uolte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9636" xml:space="preserve">il pauimento, ſia con ogni induſtria, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9637" xml:space="preserve">arte fatto
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9638" xml:space="preserve">adorno, eccellentisſimamente bene, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9639" xml:space="preserve">principalmennte da douer durare quã-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-242-04" xlink:href="note-242-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            to piu è posſibile. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9640" xml:space="preserve">Perilche gli intonichi di dentro ſotto i tetti ſaranno mol-
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            to lodati di marmo, o di uetro, o piani, o di rilieuo, che ſi aſſettino. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9641" xml:space="preserve">Ma
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            la corteccia di fuori, ſecondo che uſarono gli antichi, ſarà lodata ſe la farai di
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            calcina, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9642" xml:space="preserve">di figure, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9643" xml:space="preserve">ne l’una & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9644" xml:space="preserve">ne l’altra harai auuertenza grandisſima di por
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            re, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9645" xml:space="preserve">le tauole, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9646" xml:space="preserve">le figure in luoghi & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9647" xml:space="preserve">ſeggi conuenienti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9648" xml:space="preserve">Et ne’ portici ſi
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            accommodano molto eccellentemente in pittura le memorie de le gran coſe
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            ſeguite. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9649" xml:space="preserve">Ma dentro nel Tempio a me piacciono piu le tauole dipinte che
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            non mi piace il dipignere le facciate de le mura, anzi mi piaceranno piu toſto
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            ſtatue che pitture, ſe già per auentura elle non fusſino, come quelle due, che
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            già Ceſare comperò mille quattrocento ſcudi per adornare il Tempio di Vene-
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            re Genitrice. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9650" xml:space="preserve">Et io ſtarò a riguardare una pittura, de le buone, dico, per-
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            che egli è un’im brattare le mura a dipignerui le cattiue, forſe con non manco
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            piacere d’animo che io mi ſtia a leggere una buona hiſtoria, l’uno & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9651" xml:space="preserve">l’altro è pit-
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            tore, l’uno dipinge con le parole, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9652" xml:space="preserve">l’altro col pennello, l’altre coſe ſono ad
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            amenduoi pari & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9653" xml:space="preserve">communi, nell’una & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9654" xml:space="preserve">nell’altra ſi ha dibiſogno di grandisſi-
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            mo ingegno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9655" xml:space="preserve">di incredibile diligentia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9656" xml:space="preserve">Ma io uorrei che ne tempii, & </s>
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            ne le mura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9658" xml:space="preserve">nel pauimento non fuſſe coſa alcuna, che non fuſſe tutta Filoſo-
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            fia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9659" xml:space="preserve">Io truouo che in Campidoglio erano tauole di bronzo intagliateui den-
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            tro le leggi, con lequali reggesſino l’Imperio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9660" xml:space="preserve">Lequali quando arſe il Tem-
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            pio furono poi rifatte da Veſpaſiano Imperatore ſino al numero di tremila.
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            Dicono che ne la ſoglia del Tempio d’Apolline in Delo erano intagliati uerſi,
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            che inſegnauano a gli huomini, che compoſitioni di herbe hauesſino ad uſare
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            contro a qual ſi uoleſſe ueleno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9662" xml:space="preserve">Et io giudicherò che ſia bene porui quel-
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            li auertimeuti mediante iquali habbiamo ad imparare ad eſſere piu giuſti, </s>
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