Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            la necesſità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11777" xml:space="preserve">non ſecondo la Maieſtà o le delicatezze. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11778" xml:space="preserve">Nella Germania à tempi
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            di Ceſare ſi haueua auertenza che e' non ſi edificaſſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11779" xml:space="preserve">masſimo in villa troppo
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            accuratamente, accioche di quiui non naſceſſe, intra i cittadini alcuna diſſenſio
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            ne per il deſiderio di vſurpare le coſe d'altri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11780" xml:space="preserve">Valerio hauendo in Roma vicino
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            a Monte cauallo, vna altisſima caſa, la disfece per ſchifare & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11781" xml:space="preserve">fuggire la inuidia,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11782" xml:space="preserve">la rimurò giuſo nel piano, ſi che quella buona antichità andò ſeguitando que
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            ſta modeſtia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11783" xml:space="preserve">in publico, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11784" xml:space="preserve">priuato, ſino a tanto che gli fù permeſſo ſecondo i
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            buoni coſtumi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11785" xml:space="preserve">Ma accreſciuto di poi lo Imperio crebbe tanto in la maggior
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            parte de gl'huomini queſto appetito ſuntuoſo del murare (eccetto che in Otta
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            uiano) concioſia che li pareua tanto graue lo ediſicare ſuntuoſamente, che egli
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            disſece vna caſa in villa murata con troppa ſuntuoſità. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11786" xml:space="preserve">tanto dico crebbe que-
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            ſto ſtraboccheuole appetito nella città, che ci furono alcuni in la ſamiglia de
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            Gordiani, infra gli altri, che per la via che va a Paleſtrina murarono vna caſa cõ
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            cc. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11787" xml:space="preserve">colonne di vna medeſima groſſezza, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11788" xml:space="preserve">grandezza in vn ſilo, cinquanta del-
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            le quali erano Numidice, cinquauta Claudiane, cinquanta Simiade, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11789" xml:space="preserve">cinquan-
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            ta Tiſtee ſecondo che io mi ricordo d'hauer letto: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11790" xml:space="preserve">Ma che coſa ancora è quella
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            che racconta Lucretio che per le caſe ſi trouauano ſtatue di Giouani d'oro, che
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            nella man deſtra teneuan'torce acceſe, accioche i lumi ſopperisſino alle viuan-
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            de della notte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11791" xml:space="preserve">Ma a che racconto io queſte coſe, accioche io conſermi per la
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            comparatione di eſſe (quel che io disſi poco fà) che e'mi piace che le coſe ſi mo-
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            derino ciaſcuna ſecondo la ſua degnità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11792" xml:space="preserve">ſe tu farai al mio modo, io vorrei piu
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            toſto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11793" xml:space="preserve">masſimo nelli edifitij priuati, che gli huomini piu ſplendidi vi deſide-
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            rasſino per addornamenti alcune coſe, che io non vorrei che gli huomini mo-
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            derati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11794" xml:space="preserve">compoſti vi riprendesſino da neſſuna banda la troppa ſuntuoſità. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11795" xml:space="preserve">Ma
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            poi che tutti acconſentiamo di hauere a laſciare appreſſo de poſteri fama, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11796" xml:space="preserve">di
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            ſauij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11797" xml:space="preserve">di potenti, per queſto conto dico come diceua Tucidide, muriamo ſun
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            tuoſisſimam ente acciò dimoſtriamo a poſteri la grandezza noſtra. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11798" xml:space="preserve">Per il che
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            ancora quando che non meno per honorare la patria, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11799" xml:space="preserve">la caſata noſtra che per
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            dilicatezza addorneremo alcune coſe noſtre, chi ſarà quello che non dica che
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            ella è coſa da homo da bene? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11800" xml:space="preserve">Ne ſarà marauiglia che mi piaccia colui che vor-
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            rà che quelle parti della caſa, masſimo che hanno a ſtare in publico, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11801" xml:space="preserve">che han-
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            no ad eſſere le prime, per riceuere gratamente quelli che vi uerranno ad allog-
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            giare, com'è la facciata della caſa, l'antiporto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11802" xml:space="preserve">ſimili, ſieno molto honoratisſi-
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            me, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11803" xml:space="preserve">ſe bene io tengo che coloro ſieno da eſſere biaſimati che eſcon troppo
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            fuori de gli ordini, Nondimeno io credo che e' ſieno da eſſer vituperati colo-
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            ro, che haranno ediſicato con ſpeſa grande in ſi ſatta maniera, che la lor mura-
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            glia non ſi poſſa addornare, molto piu che coloro che nelle loro muraglie han-
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            no voluto addornamenti di maggiore ſpeſa, ma io mi riſoluo in queſto modo,
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            chi vorrà bene auuertire, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11804" xml:space="preserve">conſiderare il vero, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11805" xml:space="preserve">certo addornamento de gli
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            edifitij: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11806" xml:space="preserve">conoſcerà certamente che e' non conſiſte principalmente nella ſpeſa
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            della opera, ma nel diſegno che dallo ingegno ſi caua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11807" xml:space="preserve">Credo che chi ſarà ſauio
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            nõ vorrà nel murarele ſue caſe priuate, farle cõ troppa ſuntuoſità differenti da
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            le altri & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11808" xml:space="preserve">ſi guarderà di nõ ſi prouocar cõtro inuidia per la troppa ſpeſa, o per
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            croppa oſtentatione. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11809" xml:space="preserve">Ma bẽ vorrà per il contrario colui, che ſara ſauio, nõ </s>
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