Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            dezza delle ſpeſe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10211" xml:space="preserve">ardendo di deſiderio della gloria, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10212" xml:space="preserve">deſiderando, per quã-
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            to è poteſſero di ſpandere la fama del nome loro; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10213" xml:space="preserve">non perdonarono però
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            (per ſino a quanto poterono) a ſpeſa alcuna, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10214" xml:space="preserve">con ogni loro ſtudio preoccu-
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            parono tutto quello, che poteſſe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10215" xml:space="preserve">l’arte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10216" xml:space="preserve">la forza de gli ingegni & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10217" xml:space="preserve">de mae-
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-267-01" xlink:href="note-267-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            ſtri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10218" xml:space="preserve">Contendendoſi adunque & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10219" xml:space="preserve">di diſegno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10220" xml:space="preserve">di conuenientia di lauori, di eſ-
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            ſere uguali a’ Re. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10221" xml:space="preserve">Ottennero ſecondo me di non gli eſtere in tal’ caſo molto
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            inferiori. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10222" xml:space="preserve">Et però riſerbinſi nel libro, che uiene. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10223" xml:space="preserve">Et prometto queſto, che ſi
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            fatte coſe arrecheranno quando ſaranno lette ad altrui piacere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10224" xml:space="preserve">ma non laſcia-
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            mo qui indietro quel che fà a noſtro propoſito.</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head126" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Se e’ ſi debbon’ metter’ le statue ne Tempij, & di che coſa ſi debbon’ fare piu com-
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          modamente. Cap. XV II.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10226" xml:space="preserve">SOno alcuni, che nõ uorrieno, che ne Tempij ſi metteſsino ſtatue, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10227" xml:space="preserve">dico-
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            no che il Re Nũma nõ volle che ne Tempij ſi metteſſe ſimulacro alcuno,
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            ſeguendo la diſciplina di Pittagora. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10228" xml:space="preserve">Et però Seneca ſi rideua di ſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10229" xml:space="preserve">de
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            ſuoi cittadini, fcherziamo diceua come i bambini con le bambole, ma quelli
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            che impararono da noſtri antichi adducẽdone la ragione diſcorrono in que-
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            ſto modo delle coſe de gli Dij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10230" xml:space="preserve">Chi ſarà tanto ſciocco che nõ ſappia che le coſe,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-267-04" xlink:href="note-267-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            de gli Dij ſi hanno a cõſiderare con la mente & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10231" xml:space="preserve">nõ con gli occhi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10232" xml:space="preserve">Etè coſa ma-
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            nifeſta che e’ non ſi può dare alcune forme con lequali ſi poſſa in alcuna parte
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            ancor’ che minima, imitare, o ſormare una coſa di tanta grandezza com’ è Dio;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10233" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10234" xml:space="preserve">ſi penſa certo che gioui grandiſsimamente a potere conſeguire, che ciaſcuno
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            potrà ſecondo le forze ſue intendere & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10235" xml:space="preserve">conoſcere & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10236" xml:space="preserve">eſſer’ capace della natura
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            del primo motore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10237" xml:space="preserve">delle ſuperne intelligẽtie, ſe non ui ſaranno alcune ſtatue
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-267-05" xlink:href="note-267-05a" xml:space="preserve">25</note>
            fatte manualmente. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10238" xml:space="preserve">Et coſi in queſto modo piu prontamente honoreremo il
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            nome della Maieſtà diuina. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10239" xml:space="preserve">Altri la intendono per il contrario. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10240" xml:space="preserve">Percio che e’
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            dicono che certe ſorti di huomini furono connumerati infra gli Dij, con otti-
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            mo certo & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10241" xml:space="preserve">ſauio conſiglio, accio che gli animi de gli ignoranti piu facilmẽte
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            leuandoſi dalla loro mala uita, ſi riuoltaſsino a doue fuſsino le ſtatue, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10242" xml:space="preserve">andan
              <lb/>
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            do ad adorarle, penſaſsino di and are ad adorare gli Dij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10243" xml:space="preserve">Altri credettero che e’
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            fuſſe bene porre in luoghi ſacri & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10244" xml:space="preserve">doue haueſsino ad eſſere ueduti l’effigie di
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            coloro, che haueſsino meritato aſſai da gli altri huomini, o che è penſaſsino
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            che e’fuſsino da douere eſſere conſacrati per Dij, accioche honorati da poſteri
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            gli accendeſſero di zelo di gloria cercando di imitarli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10245" xml:space="preserve">Ma egli certo importa
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-267-07" xlink:href="note-267-07a" xml:space="preserve">35</note>
            aſſai quali ſtatue, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10246" xml:space="preserve">maſsimo ne Tempij, in quai luoghi, come ſpeſſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10247" xml:space="preserve">di che
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            materia ui ſi ponghino. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10248" xml:space="preserve">Percioche e’non ui ſi hanno a mettere ſtatue da far’ ri-
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            dere, come quelle che ſi mettono ne gli horti, per ſpauentacchio de gli vccegli,
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            ne come quelle che ſi mettono ne portici de ſoldati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10249" xml:space="preserve">ſimili. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10250" xml:space="preserve">Ne giudico che
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            ſia bene metterle in luoghi ſtretti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10251" xml:space="preserve">in luoghi che nõ ſieno honorati, Ma tratte
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            remo prima di che materia ſia ben’ farle, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10252" xml:space="preserve">dipoi dell’altre coſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10253" xml:space="preserve">Dice Plutarco
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            che gli antichi faceuano le ſtatue di legno, ſi come in Delo fù la ſtatua di Apolli
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            ne, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10254" xml:space="preserve">in Popolonia, vicina a Piombino vene fù vna di Vite conſecrata a Gioue,
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            laquale molti raccontano che ſi mantenne ſalda lungo tempo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10255" xml:space="preserve">come </s>
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