Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            modeſti, piu utili, piu ornati d’ogni uirtù, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9663" xml:space="preserve">piu grati a Dio; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9664" xml:space="preserve">come ſono queí det
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            ti che ſi leggono, fa d’eſſer tale, quale tu uuoi eſſer tenuto, ama & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9665" xml:space="preserve">ſarai ama-
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            to, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9666" xml:space="preserve">ſimili. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9667" xml:space="preserve">Et uorrei che’l componimento de le linee del pauimento fuſſe
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            tutto pieno di linee, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9668" xml:space="preserve">di figure appartenenti a le proportioni, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9669" xml:space="preserve">a la Geome-
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            tria; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9670" xml:space="preserve">accioche da ogni banda fusſino eccitati a lo eſercitamento de lo animo.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9671" xml:space="preserve">Gli antichi uſarono di porre ne Tempii & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9672" xml:space="preserve">ne portici per adornarli coſe rare & </s>
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-243-01" xlink:href="note-243-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            eccellenti, come nel Tempio di Ercole furono quelle corna de le formiche ar-
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            recateui inſino da l’India, o come quelle corone di Canella, che Veſpaſiano con
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            duſſe nel Campidoglio, o come quella tazza d’oro che Auguſta poſe nel Tem-
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            pio principale del Monte Palatino dentroui una gran barba di Cinnamomo,
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            o cannella. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9674" xml:space="preserve">A Termo in Etholia debellata da Filippo, dicono, che erano ne’
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            portici del Tempio meglio che quindici mila pezzi d’arme, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9675" xml:space="preserve">per adornare il
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            Tempio meglio che dumila ſtatue, lequali ſecondo che racconta Polibio furo-
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            no tutte disfatte da Filippo, eccetto che quelle, ne lequali era, o ſcritto il nome
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            di alcuno Dio, o che rendeuano ſimiglianza alli Dii, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9676" xml:space="preserve">non è forſe da conſidera-
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            re manco la gran quantità, che la uarietà di sì fatte coſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9677" xml:space="preserve">In Sicilia dice Solino
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-243-03" xlink:href="note-243-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            furono alcuni, che faceuano le ſtatue di Sale, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9678" xml:space="preserve">una dice Plinio ne fu fatta di ue-
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            tro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9679" xml:space="preserve">Et certamente che ſimil coſe ſaranno rarisſime, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9680" xml:space="preserve">oltra modo degne
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            fuor de la oppenidne de la natura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9681" xml:space="preserve">de gli ingegni de gli huomini. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9682" xml:space="preserve">Ma par-
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            leremo altroue de le ſtatue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9683" xml:space="preserve">Metteſi de le colonne ne le mura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9684" xml:space="preserve">ſi applicano a
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            uani. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9685" xml:space="preserve">Ma non con il medeſimo ordina che ne portici. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9686" xml:space="preserve">Et ho conſideraro
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            queſto ne Tempii grandisſimi che non hauendo forſe colonne, che ſeruisſino a
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            baſtanza a tanta grandezza di fabrica, e’ dettono tanto di diritto a le moſſe de le
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            uolti, che quella ſaetta, che da la ſommità de gli archi de le uolte ſi tiraſſe ſino
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            al piano, rincontro a le moſſe de le uolte fuſſe un terzo piu lunga del ſuo mezo
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            dia metro, laqual coſa ancora accrebbe bellezza a l’opera perche rileuandoſi la
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            uolta alquanto piu in alto diuiene (per dir così) alquanto piu agile, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9687" xml:space="preserve">piu eſpedi-
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            ta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9688" xml:space="preserve">Nè penſo che in queſto luogo ſia da laſciare indietro che ne le uolte, le
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            moſſe delli Archi hanno ad hauere oltre al mezo diametro, tanto di diritto al
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            manco, quanto ne tolgono gli aggetti delle cornici a cnloro che ſtando nel me-
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            zo del Tempio alzano gli occhi all’infuſo.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head118" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Perche cagione è bene che i tetti de Tempij ſieno in uolta. Cap. XI.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9690" xml:space="preserve">IO uorrei che i Tempii ſi perche ſi arrecano dietro maggior’ dignità, ſi an-
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            cora perche ſono piu durabili & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9691" xml:space="preserve">eterni, fusſino quaſi tutti in volta; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9692" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9693" xml:space="preserve">non sò
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            veramente d’onde ſi proceda, che e’ non ſi truoua quaſi alcun’ Tempio cele-
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            brato, che non ſia caduto nella calamità del fuoco. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9694" xml:space="preserve">Io hò letto che Cambi-
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            ſe abbruciò tutti quanti i Tempii di Egitto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9695" xml:space="preserve">che ei ne portò l’oro & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9696" xml:space="preserve">gli ad-
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            dornamenti a Perſepoli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9697" xml:space="preserve">Euſebio racconta che lo Oracolo di Delpho fù
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            tre volte abbruciato da Tracii, il medeſimo truouo io appreſſo di Erodoto
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            eſſendo vn’altra volta da perſe abbruciato, che fù da Amaſo reftaurato. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9698" xml:space="preserve">Al-
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            troue hò letto che ei fù abbrucciato da Flegias in quel’tempo nel quale Feni-
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            ce aggiunſe alcuni caratteri di letter’ per i ſuoi cittadini; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9699" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9700" xml:space="preserve">arſe di nuouo </s>
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