Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              ACTIO PRIMA,
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              IN CALVMNIATOREM
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              LIBRORVM DE SVBTILITATE,
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              AD FRANCISCVM ABVNDIVM
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              S. </s>
              <s id="s.014340">Abundij Commendatarium Perpetuum.
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              <s id="s.014341">RECTE quidem ac iure me­
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              ritò exiſtimaſſe videtur
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              Empedocles, duo eſſe re­
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              rum naturalium princi­
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              pia, quorum alterum bo­
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              num, & ad conſtruen dum
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              accommodatum, quóque
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              omnia repararentur ac florerent: alterum
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              malum, ad deſtruendum ſolùm paratum
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              atque idoneum. </s>
              <s id="s.014342">Namque id tam apertè in
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              cunctis rebus humanis, & naturalibus con­
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              ſpicitur, vt ſtudiose inter ſe hæc principia
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              certare perpetuò videantur. </s>
              <s id="s.014343">Etenim aſſiduè
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              ortum, & interitum, incolumitatem, &
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              morbum, lætitiam atque triſtitiam, ſere­
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              nitatem, & nubes, abundantiam ac penu­
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              riam, ſexcentáque huiuſmodi in dies ſin­
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              gulos ſuccedere ſibi inuicem alterna vice
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              videmus. </s>
              <s id="s.014344">Iam modò florebant artes, bo­
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              næ literæ maximum ſuſceperant incremen­
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              tum, honos magnus eruditis ac ſtudioſis
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              habebatur: tot rerum inſignium notitia ac­
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              ceſſerat, vt aurea ætas reſtituta videretur,
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              poſſéntque maiores noſtri, pueri ad præſen­
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              tes collati iuſtè appellari: cùm ecce ſubitò
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              verſa rerum omnium facies, ac cuncta ſi­
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              mul relabi cœperunt, non honos ſtudio­
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              ſis, non præmia eruditis, non cultus ar­
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              tium ac diſciplinarum, non quies vlla à ve­
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              xationibus conceditur. </s>
              <s id="s.014345">Quin falſa veris,
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              infima ſummis miſceantur, atque idem exi­
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              ſtimatur, eſſe, & haberi verba, & res ip­
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              ſæ, diſciplinæ, & artes, reconditæque
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              ſcientiæ, cum ſophiſticis argutiolis ac ca­
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              uillationibus. </s>
              <s id="s.014346">Id factum ex non tam bel­
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              lorum horum implacabilium importunita­
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              te, quàm ambitione eorum, qui ſurgentem
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              vndique lucem diuini numeris conantur
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              extinguere. </s>
              <s id="s.014347">Atque exemplo Heroſtrati,
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              qui templum illud deleuit, cuius ne mini­
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              mum quidem angulum ædificare ſufficiens
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              fuiſſet, hi egregij viri ingenium, doctri­
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              nam, deorum dona, ac hominum com­
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              modis deſtinata, ad euertenda benè inuen­
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              ta dirigunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014348">Nam cùm quædam artes, imò
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              potiùs diſciplinæ ſint, quæ hoc præcipuè
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              obtineant, vt de omnibus aliis artibus ſa­
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              tis benè atque ornatè dicere poſſunt, vt pri­
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              ma Philoſophia, & Grammatica, verùm
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              principaliter Dialectica atque Rhetorica:
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              quidam in his iuſtè plus, quàm deceat exer­
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              citati, non ſecùs, ac qui meſſoria falce ad iu­
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              gulandos homines vtitur, ad inutiles diſpu­
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              tationes, contentioſáſque calumnias, quas
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              Galenus toties, ac tam acerbè inſectatur, nec
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              tamen quantum ipſa res merebatur, præſtare
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              potuit, incommodo magno ac iactura bona­
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              rum diſciplinarum abutuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.014349">Vt non abſur­
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              dè dubitaret ipſe Rhetoricæ ac Eloquentiæ
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              pater Cicero, an facundia plus commodi ac
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              incommodi ciuitatibus afferret? </s>
              <s id="s.014350">ſcilicet quòd
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              cognoſceret, has artes, quæ in nullo proprio
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              verſantur ſubiecto, nihilque aliud, quàm diſ­
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              ceptare efficaciùs docent, non ſecùs ac con­
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              dimenta, ſal, oleum, acetum, moderatè qui­
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              dem adhibita cibos efficere ſuauiores, at
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              ſi immodicè immiſceantur, nihil eſſe nocen­
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              tius. </s>
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              <s id="s.014351">Ergo hac confidentia fretus calumniator
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              quidam, dum moliri ſuo marte nihil quàm
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              audet, opus noſtrum de Subtilitate demoliri
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              aggreſſus eſt, ſperans (vt reor) futurum, vt
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              mutuis altercationibus hominibus incla­
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              reſceret. </s>
              <s id="s.014352">Neque enim video ſi aliquid le­
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              ctu dignum ſua induſtria, & quod homi­
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              nibus eſſe vtile, ac ſine contentionis pe­
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              riculo, ſine liuoris ſuſpicione, & abſque metu
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              infamiæ, cur non tot horas potiùs (quas val­
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              dè multas conſumpſiſſe haud dubium eſt )
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              quandoquidem maior (vt dici ſolet) appendix
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              ſit principali, aliquo in præclaro ſubiecto
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              collocauerit. </s>
              <s id="s.014353">Quinetiam audiui ipſum hoc
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              virulentiæ genere vſum eſſe, vt primùm li­
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              bros de Futilitate inſcripſerit, quanquam
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              poſtmodum mutato conſilio, aut amicorum
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              ſuaſu propriam inſcriptionem reſtituerit.
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              <s id="s.014354">Itaque vtut res ſe habuerit, vel non admo­
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              dum iudicio valuit, vel liuore quodam victus
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              eſt, vel vt tantus non ſit, quantum ſui illi
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              gnathones ferunt in re literaria, neceſſa­
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              rium eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.014355">Sed ego omnia malim in melius in­
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              terpretari, ſit diligens, acutus, eruditus ſanè
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              per me licet, hæc bono etiam animo, & reip.
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              <s id="s.014356">literariæ iuuandæ ſtudio iſta conſcripſerit
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              (quanquam ego non adeò acuti ingenij me
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              eſſe fatear, vt omnia hæc ſimul eſſe poſ­
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              ſe videam ) quid illum adegit rogo, vt ca­
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              lumniis ac criminationibus, tum maledi­
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              ctis abſque offenſa, imò etiam abſque co­
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              gnitione hominis vlla me inceſſeret? </s>
              <s id="s.014357">aut in </s>
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