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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10730" xml:space="preserve">Alla alta marauiglia il paſſo ferma
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            # O Viator, quì non contende inſieme
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            # Moglie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10731" xml:space="preserve">Marito; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10732" xml:space="preserve">piu forſe uorreſii
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            # Saper chi ſemo? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10733" xml:space="preserve">io nol direi giama.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10734" xml:space="preserve"># Vien quà, uien quà, ch’io te ldtrò ben’ io,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-285-01" xlink:href="note-285-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            # Queſto mio Belbo, Balbo, Ebbra, Per Bebbra
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            # Michiama; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10735" xml:space="preserve">Ab donna ancor morta contendi?</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10737" xml:space="preserve">Simil coſe certo mi piacciono grandemente. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10738" xml:space="preserve">Gli antichi ufauano di dorare i
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            caratteri de lelettere ne marmi, gli Egittii ſi ſeruiuano di immagini & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10739" xml:space="preserve">di coſe in
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            queſto modo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10740" xml:space="preserve">Sculpiuano un’occhio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10741" xml:space="preserve">per eſſo intendeuano Dio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10742" xml:space="preserve"># Vno
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            Auoltoio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10743" xml:space="preserve">per eſſo intendeuano la natura, per una Pecchia un Re, per un cer-
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            chio il tempo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10744" xml:space="preserve">per un bue, la pace, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10745" xml:space="preserve">altre coſe ſimili. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10746" xml:space="preserve">Et diceuano che ognina-
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            tione conoſceua ſolamentei ſuoi ſtesſi caratteri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10747" xml:space="preserve">che egli auerrebbe che tale
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            cognitione ſi ſpegnerebbe del tutto, fi come è interuenuto a noi de le lettere
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            Etruſche. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10748" xml:space="preserve">Per la Etruria mediante le rouine de le città de le caſtella, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10749" xml:space="preserve">de cimi-
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            teri ho uiſti ſepolcri diſotterati con Epitaffii di lettere ſecondo il giudicio uniuer
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            fale. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10750" xml:space="preserve">Etruſche, i caratteri de lequali ſi aſſomigliano & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10751" xml:space="preserve">a quei de Greci, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10752" xml:space="preserve">a quei de
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            Latini, ma non è però neſſuno che gli intenda, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10753" xml:space="preserve">però penſauano che a gl’altri an
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            cora foſſe per auenire il medeſimo:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10754" xml:space="preserve">ma il modo de lo ſcriuere che uſauano in sì
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            fatte coſe gli Egittii potrà eſſere per tutto il mondo da gli huomini dotti (a quali
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-285-04" xlink:href="note-285-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            è bene che ſieno comunicate le coſe eccellenti)facilmente interpretato. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10755" xml:space="preserve">Alcu-
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            ni immitando queſte coſe, intagliarono ne ſepolcri uarie coſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10756" xml:space="preserve">Al ſepolcro di
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            Diogene Cinico ui era una colonna ritta, ne laquale haueuano meſſo un cane di
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            marmo Pario. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10757" xml:space="preserve">Cicerone Arpinate ſi uantaua d’hauer ritrouato a Siracuſa il ſepol
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            cro di Archimede, abbandonato per la antichità, come coperto da pruni, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10758" xml:space="preserve">nõ
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            conoſciuto da ſuoi Cittadini, preſa coniettura da uno Cylindro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10759" xml:space="preserve">da una Sfera
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            piccola, che ei uedde intagliata in una certa colonna molto alta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10760" xml:space="preserve">Al ſepolcro
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            di Simandio Re de gli Egittii ui era ſcolpita in un marmodi uenti cubiti la ma-
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            dre con tre corone Regali ſopra la teſta, per denotare che ella era ſtata figliuola,
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            moglie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10761" xml:space="preserve">madre di Re. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10762" xml:space="preserve">Al ſepolcro di Sardanapalo, Rc de gli Asſirii poſono
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-285-06" xlink:href="note-285-06a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            una ſtatua, che in ſegno d’allegrezza, ſi batteua le mani inſieme, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10763" xml:space="preserve">ui haueuano
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            poſto un’Epitaſfio, che diceua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10764" xml:space="preserve">Io feci Tarſo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10765" xml:space="preserve">Archileo in un ſol giorno:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10766" xml:space="preserve">ma tu,
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            o amico ma ngia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10767" xml:space="preserve">bei con piacere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10768" xml:space="preserve">con allegrezza, concioſia che l’altre coſe,
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            che ſon o de gli huom ini non fon degne di queſta allegrezza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10769" xml:space="preserve">Si che ſi fatte
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            erano le inſcrittioni & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10770" xml:space="preserve">le ſtatue loro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10771" xml:space="preserve">Ma a Romani noſtri, èpiaciuto d’eſpri-
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            mere i gran fatti de gli huomini grandi, con l’hauer fatto intagliare una hiſtoria
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            di marmo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10772" xml:space="preserve">Diquìle colonne, diquìgli archi trionfali, di quì i portici furo-
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            no ripieni, d’hiſtorie, di pittura & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10773" xml:space="preserve">di ſcultura: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10774" xml:space="preserve">ma io non uorrei che cou queſte
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            coſe ſi faceſſe memoria alcuna, ſe non di coſe di grandisſima importanza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10775" xml:space="preserve">Ma
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            di loro ſia detto a baſtanza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10776" xml:space="preserve">Habbian detto de le ſtrade, per terra:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10777" xml:space="preserve">ma le ſtrade
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            per acqua goderanno di quelle medeſime coſe, che ſi lodano per le terreſtre:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10778" xml:space="preserve">ma
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            aſpettandoſi a le ſtrade marittime, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10779" xml:space="preserve">a quelle per terra ancora le torri in luoghi
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            rile uati ſiamo forzati a trattare alquanto di loro.</s>
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