Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            @a uolta regnando Ciro, pochi anni dopo la morte di Seruio Tullio Re de Ro-
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            mani, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9701" xml:space="preserve">è chiaro che egli arſe ancora un’altra uolta intorno a quelli anni, che nac
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            quero quei chiarisſimi lumi d’ingegno, Catullo, Saluſtio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9702" xml:space="preserve">Varrone. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9703" xml:space="preserve">Il Tem-
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            pio Efeſio fu abbruciato da le Amazone regnando Siluio Poſtumio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9704" xml:space="preserve">di nuo-
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            uo fu abbruciato nel tempo che Socrate in Athene beuè il ueleno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9705" xml:space="preserve">Et appreſ-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-244-01" xlink:href="note-244-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            ſo de gli Argiui capitò male per il fuoco il Tempio, in quello anno che Platone
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            nacque in Athene, regnando in Roma Tarquino, che dirò io de ſacri portici
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            di Hieroſolima? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9706" xml:space="preserve">che del Tempio di Minerua a Mileſio? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9707" xml:space="preserve">che del Tempio di Se-
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            rapio in Aleſſandria? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9708" xml:space="preserve">che in Roma della Ritonda? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9709" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9710" xml:space="preserve">del Tempio de la Dea Ve
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            ſta? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9711" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9712" xml:space="preserve">di quello di Apolline? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9713" xml:space="preserve">nelquale dicono che abbrucciarono i uerſi de la
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-244-02" xlink:href="note-244-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            Sibilla? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9714" xml:space="preserve">Tutti gli altri Tempii quaſi dicono che ſono caduti in ſimile calami-
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            tà. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9715" xml:space="preserve">Diodoro ſcriue che ſolamente quello, che era dedicato a Venere ne la
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            città di Erice in Sicilia ſi era mantenuto illeſo da tal calamità ſino a tempi ſuoi.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9716" xml:space="preserve">Et Cefare ſcriue che Aleſlandria non arſe per eſſere ella in uolta, pigliandola
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            egli per forza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9717" xml:space="preserve">Hanno certamente le uolte i loro adornamenti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9718" xml:space="preserve">Vſarono
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            gli antichi di trasferire ne le cupole tutti quelli adornamenti, che gli Oreſici fa-
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            ceuano ne le tazze de ſacrificij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9719" xml:space="preserve">quelli, che ſi uſauano ne le coltre che ſi ten-
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            gono ſu per le letta, gli traſportarono ne le uolte a ſpigoli, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9720" xml:space="preserve">in quelle a botte,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9721" xml:space="preserve">però ſi ueggono ſcompartimenti di quattro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9722" xml:space="preserve">di otto facce, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9723" xml:space="preserve">ſimili tirati
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            per la uolta con angoli uguali, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9724" xml:space="preserve">con linee equidiſtanti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9725" xml:space="preserve">con diritture di linee,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-244-04" xlink:href="note-244-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9726" xml:space="preserve">con cerchi, ſcompartite tanto bene, che e’ non è posſibile aggiugnerci coſa
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            alcuna per farle piu gratiate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9727" xml:space="preserve">Et faccia queſto a noſtro propoſito che gli ad-
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            dornamenti de le uolte ſenza dubbio ſono coſa dignisſima, ſi quelli, che in mol-
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            ti altri luoghi quaſi per tutto ſi ueggono, sì quelli masſimo, che ſono ne la Riton
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            da fatti di sfon dati, iquali in che modo ſe li facesſino non ſi truoua ſcritto.
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            lo gli ho uſati di fare in queſto modo con poca fatica & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9729" xml:space="preserve">con poca ſpeſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9730" xml:space="preserve">Io di-
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            ſegno i lineamenti de le forme, che io uoglio ſopra l’armadura de la uolta, di
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            quattro di ſei, o d’otto facce, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9731" xml:space="preserve">doue io uoglio che le uolte sfondino, alzò inſi-
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            no a quella determinata altezza di mattoni crudi murati con terra in ſcambio
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            di calcina: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9732" xml:space="preserve">ſi che murate queſte coſe, come monticelli ſopra il dorſo de la ar-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-244-06" xlink:href="note-244-06a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            madura, ui gettò poi ſopra la uolta di mezane cotte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9733" xml:space="preserve">di calcina, uſando
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            diligentia, che doue ſarà la uolta piu ſottile, mediante queſti sfondati ella ſi
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            congiunga bene, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9734" xml:space="preserve">ſimeni legata con le parti de la uolta piu groſſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9735" xml:space="preserve">piu ga-
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            gliarde. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9736" xml:space="preserve">Fatto che la uolta ha poi la preſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9737" xml:space="preserve">che e’ ſi lieuano le armadure,
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            io cauo del ſaldo de la uolta quei monticelli di loto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9738" xml:space="preserve">di mattoni crudi, che
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-244-07" xlink:href="note-244-07a" xml:space="preserve">35</note>
            io ui haueua da prima accommodati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9739" xml:space="preserve">in queſto modo mi rieſcono le forme
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            de gli sfondati in quella maniera che io haueuo diſegnato. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9740" xml:space="preserve">Torniamo hora
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            al propoſito noſtro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9741" xml:space="preserve">A me piacerebbe grandemente quel che ſcriue Varro-
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            ne, che ne la uolta fuſſe dipinta la forma del Cielo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9742" xml:space="preserve">una ſtella mobile, che
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            con la ſua lancetta dimoſtraſſe qual hora fuſſe del giorno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9743" xml:space="preserve">che Vento ancora
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            tiraſſe dal lato di fuora; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9744" xml:space="preserve">certo che sì fatte coſe mi piacciono grandisſimamen-
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            te. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9745" xml:space="preserve">Dicono che i Frontiſpicii arrecano tanto di grandezza a le fabriche, che
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            le celeſti caſe del gran Cioue, ſe bene la sù non pioue mai, non poſſono ſtar
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            bene ſenza il frontiſpicio, uolendo mantenerſi una certa grandezza, i </s>
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