Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11135" xml:space="preserve">Romul’ tu primo allor’, di cure empieſti
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            # Igiuochi, ch’e’l Sabin’le ſiglie uide,
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            # A i uedoui Roman gioconda preda.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11136" xml:space="preserve"># Non ornaua Theatro ancora il Marmo
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            # Neuela ombra faceali: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11137" xml:space="preserve">ei ſuoi ſuggiſti
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            # Non ſacea roßitemperato Croeo.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11138" xml:space="preserve"># Iui eran’ frondi ſolo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11139" xml:space="preserve">e’n quella giuſa
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            # Che ſemplici l’hauea prodotte il boſco; </s>
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            # Era ſenz’arte ancor’ fatta la ſcena
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            # Sedeua il popol’ ſopra i gradi fatti
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            # Di uerdi Ceſpi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11141" xml:space="preserve">difendea dal Sole
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            # L’aſpro capel’, con qual’ ſi uoglia fronde.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11143" xml:space="preserve">Dicono nientedimanco che Iolao figliuolo di Ipſicleo fu il primo che nella
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            Iſola di Sardigna ordinaſſe gradi da ſedere, quando e’ riceuè le Teſpiade da
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            Ercole. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11144" xml:space="preserve">Ma da prima anticamente ſi faceuano i Teatri dilegno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11145" xml:space="preserve"># Anzi bia-
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            ſimarono Pompeio, perche egli haueua fatti i gradi dello ſpettacolo fermi, & </s>
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            non da poterſi leuare, come prima era l’uſanza. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11147" xml:space="preserve">Dipoi venne la coſa a tan-
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            to che dentro alla città di Roma erano tre grandiſsimi Teatri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11148" xml:space="preserve">Amfiteatri
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            infiniti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11149" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11150" xml:space="preserve">quello ancora che era capaciſsimo di meglio che di dugento mi-
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            la perſone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11151" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11152" xml:space="preserve">quel’luogo che e’ chiamauano Cerchio maſsimo, i quali tutti
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            erano fatti di pietre riquadrate, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11153" xml:space="preserve">addornati di colonne di marmo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11154" xml:space="preserve">Oltre a
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            che non contenti di ſi fatte coſe, feciono ancora ſpettacoli per attempo pieni
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            di marmi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11155" xml:space="preserve">di uetri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11156" xml:space="preserve">di vna in finita moltitudine di Statue; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11157" xml:space="preserve">il maggiore ſpet-
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            tacolo inſino in quei tempi & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11158" xml:space="preserve">piu di tutti gli altri capaciſsimo, arſe a Piacentia
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            città di Lombardia per la guerra di Ottauiano. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11159" xml:space="preserve">Ma di queſti ſia detto a baſtan-
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            za. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11160" xml:space="preserve"># De gli ſpettacoli ne ſono alcuni buoni per la quiete, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11161" xml:space="preserve">per l’ocio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11162" xml:space="preserve">al-
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            cuni per le faccende. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11163" xml:space="preserve"># A quelli che ſon’buoni per l’ocio, ſi confanno bene i
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            Poeti, i Muſici, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11164" xml:space="preserve">li Iſtrioni che dilettano; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11165" xml:space="preserve">ma a quelli che ſi aſpettano alle co-
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            ſe da guerra, ſi conſà il giucare alle braccia, il far alle pugna, lo ſchermire, l’eſ-
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            ſercitarſi nel tirare, il correre, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11166" xml:space="preserve">ſe alcuno altro giuoco o eſſercitio d’arme ſi
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            truoua ſimile a queſti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11167" xml:space="preserve">Le quali coſe Platone voleua che ogni anno ſi facesſi-
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            no, percioche giouauano molto alla ſalute & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11168" xml:space="preserve">allo ornamento della città. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11169" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
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            hanno queſti biſogno di varie ſorti di edificij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11171" xml:space="preserve">per ciò hanno ancora varij
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            nomi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11172" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che eſſendone alcuni ne quali ſi eſſercitano i Poeti Comici
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11173" xml:space="preserve">i Tragici, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11174" xml:space="preserve">ſimili; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11175" xml:space="preserve">queſti per amore della degnità loro gli chiameremo
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            Teatri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11176" xml:space="preserve">Ma quegli altri doue la Giouentù Nobile ſi eſſercitera correndo
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            con carrette di duoi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11177" xml:space="preserve">di quattro Caualli ſi chiameranno Cerchi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11178" xml:space="preserve">Gli altri
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            finalmente ne quali rinchiuſeui le fiere ſi faranno caccie, chiameremo Amſi-
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            teatri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11179" xml:space="preserve">Quaſi tutti gli ſpettacoli vanno immitando vn’campo d’arme, che meſ-
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            ſoſi in ordinanza da duoi corni, voglia venire alle mani. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11180" xml:space="preserve">Et ſon fatti prima
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            d’una piazza nella quale i deſtinati per il giuoco o ſchermidori, o carrette, & </s>
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            ſimili ſi habbino ad eſercitare, dipoi di Gradi atorno ſu per i quali ſegghino
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            gli ſpettatori, ma ſono diſsimili, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11182" xml:space="preserve">differenti del diſegno della piazza, percio-
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            che di queſti, quelli che hanno la forma quaſi ſimile a vna Luna che già comin-
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            cia ad inuecchiare ſon’chianiati Theatri; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11183" xml:space="preserve">ma quando e’ſi diſtendeſsino con </s>
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