Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            queſto modo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12265" xml:space="preserve">Che la bellezza, è vn’ certo cõſenſo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12266" xml:space="preserve">concordantia delle par
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            ti, in qual’ ſi voglia coſa che dette parti ſi ritruouino, laqual’ concordanzia ſi
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            ſia hauuta talmente con certo determinato numero, finimento, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12267" xml:space="preserve">collocatio-
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            ne, qualmente la leggiadria cioè, il principale intento della natura, ne ricerca-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-344-01" xlink:href="note-344-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            ua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12268" xml:space="preserve">Queſto è quel che vuole grãdemente la Architettura. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12269" xml:space="preserve">Con queſto ſi proc
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            cacia ella dignità, gratia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12270" xml:space="preserve">autorità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12271" xml:space="preserve">per queſto è impregio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12272" xml:space="preserve">Per il che cono-
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            ſcendo inoſtri Antichi dalla natura delle coſe, che tutto quello che io hò rac-
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            conto di ſopra, era in ſatto coſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12273" xml:space="preserve">non dubitando punto, che faccendoſi beffe
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            di ſimil’ coſe, non poteua in modo alcuno interuenir’ loro di far’ coſa alcuna
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            che fuſſe o lodata, o honorata giudicarono che e’ biſognaua che e’ cercalsino
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            di immitare la Natura ottima artefice di tutte le forme, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12274" xml:space="preserve">per queſto andorno
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            raccogliendo per quanto poſſette la induſtria de gli huomini, le leggi, lequali
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            ella haueua vſate nel produrre le coſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12275" xml:space="preserve">le traſportarono alle coſe da edifi-
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            carſi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12276" xml:space="preserve">Conſiderando adunque quel@ che la natura vſaſſe circa il corpo inte-
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            ro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12277" xml:space="preserve">circa qual’ s’ è l’una delle parti conobbono da primi principij delle coſe,
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            che i corpi non erano compoſti ſempre di parti o membri vguali, per il che
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            interuiene chei corpi ſono prodotti dalla Natura alcuni piu ſottili alcuni piu
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            groſsi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12278" xml:space="preserve">alcuni mediocri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12279" xml:space="preserve">Et conſiderando, che vno edifitio era differente dal-
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            l’altro, mediante il fine a che egli era fatto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12280" xml:space="preserve">il biſogno a che haueua a ſerui-
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            re, ſi come ne paſlati libri raccontammo biſognaua per queſto che ſi faceſsino
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            variati. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12281" xml:space="preserve">La onde auertiti da la natura trouarono tre maniere di addornare le
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            caſe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12282" xml:space="preserve">gli impoſono, i lor’ nomi, cauati da quelle coſe, dellequali o queſti o
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            quelli ſi dilettaſsino, o per auuentura dalle coſe, ſecondo che le trouauano,
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            vno di queſti fù piu pienamente atto alla fatica, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12283" xml:space="preserve">al durar’ quaſi eterno ilqua-
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            le ci chiamarono Dorico, vn’altro piu ſottile, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12284" xml:space="preserve">piaceuoliſsimo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12285" xml:space="preserve">lo chiamaro
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            no Corinthio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12286" xml:space="preserve">uno mediocre quaſi compoſto dell’uno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12287" xml:space="preserve">dell’uno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12288" xml:space="preserve">dell’ al-
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            tro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12289" xml:space="preserve">lo chiamarono Ionico. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12290" xml:space="preserve">Si che intorno a vn’ corpo intero andorno eſa-
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            minando coſe ſimili. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12291" xml:space="preserve">Doppo queſte coſe hauendo conſiderato che quelle tre
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            coſe che noi raccontammo conferiuano molto & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12292" xml:space="preserve">maſsimo a conſeguire la bel-
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            lezza, cioè il numero, il finimento, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12293" xml:space="preserve">la collocatione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12294" xml:space="preserve">come queſte tre coſe
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            ſi haueſsino ad vſare, trouarono dal compenſare le opere della natura, cauati
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            i principij ſecondo ch’io mi penſo da queſto. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12295" xml:space="preserve">Percioche da eſſo numero, co-
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            nobbono la prima coſa che egli era di due ſorti, cioè il pari & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12296" xml:space="preserve">il caffo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12297" xml:space="preserve">ſi ſer-
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            uirono dell’ uno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12298" xml:space="preserve">dell’ altro, ma in un’ lato del’ uno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12299" xml:space="preserve">in un’ lato dello altro,
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            imperoche nelli oſſami delli ediſitij ſeguitorno la Natura, cioè nel porre delle
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            colonne, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12300" xml:space="preserve">delle cantonate, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12301" xml:space="preserve">ſimili, non le poſono mai ſe non impari, concio
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            ſia che tu non truouerrai mai animal’ neſſuno che ſtia fermo, o che uadia con i
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            piedi in caffo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12302" xml:space="preserve">Ma i vani per il contrario non poſono mai ſe non in caffo con-
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            cioſia che egli è manifeſto che la natura anchor’ ella hà fatto il ſimile, percio-
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            che alli animali fece ella uno orecchio di quà, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12303" xml:space="preserve">vno di là, duoi occhi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12304" xml:space="preserve">due
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            nare del naſo ugualmente. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12305" xml:space="preserve">ma nel mezo poi collocò un’ vano ſolo & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12306" xml:space="preserve">largo: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12307" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
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            queſto fu la Boccha. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12309" xml:space="preserve">Ma infra queſti numeri, o pari, o caffi ce ne ſono alcuni
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            che alla natura ſono piu famigliari che gli altri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12310" xml:space="preserve">piu celebrati appreſſo de ſa-
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            ui, che gli altri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12311" xml:space="preserve">I quali ſono ſtati vſurpati da gli Architettori come loro </s>
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