Alberti, Leon Battista, L' architettura

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            liari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12312" xml:space="preserve">Per queſto conto maſsimo che e’ par’ che gli habbino in loro vn’ certo
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            che, per ilquale ſono ſtimati degniſsimi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12313" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che tutti i Filoſofi affer-
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            mano che la natura da principio conſiſte in numero ternario, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12314" xml:space="preserve">il numero qui-
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            nario quando io vò eſaminando le tante coſe, tanto varie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12315" xml:space="preserve">tanto ammirabili,
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            che oſſeruano in loro il numero del cinque, o che ſono diſceſe dal numero
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            quinario, come ſono le mani de gli huomini. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12316" xml:space="preserve">Non ſenza ragione acconſento
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            di dire, che ſia coſa diuina, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12317" xml:space="preserve">conſegrata alli Dij delle arti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12318" xml:space="preserve">a Mercurio prin-
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            cipalmente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12319" xml:space="preserve">è coſa manifeſta, che Dio ottimo grandiſsimo ſi diletta grandiſ-
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            fimamente del numero del ſette, hauendo egli poſte in Cielo ſette Stelle erran
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-345-02" xlink:href="note-345-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            ti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12320" xml:space="preserve">hauendo uoluto che dell’huomo ſua ricchezza & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12321" xml:space="preserve">delitie, il crearſi, il farſi,
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            il creſcere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12322" xml:space="preserve">il conſermarſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12323" xml:space="preserve">ſimili altre coſe, ſi riduchino tutte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12324" xml:space="preserve">habbino
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            riguardo a queſto numero ſettenario. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12325" xml:space="preserve">Ariſtotile dice che gli Antichi non
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            imponeuano nome al figliuolo, che fuſſe lor’ nato ſe non in capo al ſettimo
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            giorno, quaſi che inſino à quel’ giorno non fuſſe deſtinato alla ſalute. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12326" xml:space="preserve">Con-
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            cioſia che il ſeme nella Matrice, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12327" xml:space="preserve">il faciullo poi che è nato portano grandiſ-
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            ſimo pericolo, ſino al ſettimo giorno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12328" xml:space="preserve">De numeri in caffo celebrano ancora
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            il noue, ſecondo ilqual’ numero, l’artifitioſa natura fece le ſpere del Cielo, & </s>
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            i Medici dicono ch’ egliè coſa manifeſta che la Natura ſi è contentata, di vſare,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12330" xml:space="preserve">di ſeruirſi di vna nona parte d’ un’ tutto nelle coſe grandi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12331" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che il
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            Quaranta ſia circa la nona parte di tutti, i Di dell’ Anno ſecondo il corſo del
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            Sole, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12332" xml:space="preserve">Hyppocrate dice che in Quaranta giorni la Creatura piglia la forma
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            nel uentre della grauida. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12333" xml:space="preserve">Oltra di queſto noi ueggiamo che quaſi in tutte le
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            malattie graui ſi torna alla ſanità in capo a Quaranta giorni. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12334" xml:space="preserve">In ſimil’ tẽpo
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            reſtano di purgarſi quelle che ſi ſono ingrauidate, ſe ſono grauide di Putto
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            maſchio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12335" xml:space="preserve">poi ancora ch’ elle haranno partorito un’ Putto maſchio, in capo a
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            Quaranta giorni cominciano a purgarſi di nuouo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12336" xml:space="preserve">dicono che il putto da
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            che egliè nato mentre ſtarà deſto non riderà mai ne mai gitterà lagrime ſe
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            non in capo a Quaranta giorni. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12337" xml:space="preserve">ma che bene dormendo ſi è viſto che fanno,
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            l’uno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12338" xml:space="preserve">l’altro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12339" xml:space="preserve">queſto baſti de Numeri in Caffo.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12341" xml:space="preserve">De numeri pari ci ſono ſtati alcuni infra i Filoſofi che diſſono che il nu-
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            mero quaternario era conſecrato alla Diuinità & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12342" xml:space="preserve">per queſto hanno uoluto
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            che ſe gli preſti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12343" xml:space="preserve">aggiuſti grandiſsima fede, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12344" xml:space="preserve">dicono che il numero del ſei
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            infra i rariſsimi, è molto perfetto come quello che ſi fà di tutte le ſue parti
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            intere.</s>
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