Buonamici, Francesco, De motu libri X

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              tuæ refulget, quæ cæteris iter ad Cœlum non vſitata, nec peruulgata via commonſtrent.
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              <s>Vetera non repetam: ſuperat
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              laudem omnem antiquitas; tempora noſtra ſpecto. </s>
              <s>Quid
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              in politiorum
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              genere Victorius quod attigit non adamuſſim expoliuit? </s>
              <s>Quid in
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              arte medica non obtinuit Vidius, qui rem vniuerſam ad tenue ſic elimauit, & dulciter
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              elocutis eſt, vt ſi Muſæ eam artem docturæ fuiſſent, non alia certè, quàm Vidij lingua,
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                <expan abbr="methodoq́">methodoque</expan>
              ; vſuras fuiſſe putem? </s>
              <s>Quoties me ſuo carmine rapit dulciſſimus cygnus ille
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              Bargæus? </s>
              <s>Quid de Piccolhominis
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              ; Kyrtaeo, uno
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              altero Io. </s>
              <s>Baptiſta dicam?
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              <s>Mitto complures alios insignes & philoſophos, & poëtas: hos hîc recenſere placet, qui,
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              quod inceperint, omnino perfecerint;
                <expan abbr="aliisq́">aliisque</expan>
              ; exemplum dederint, vt potius ab iis imitandi
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              ſint, quam quippiam illorum induſtriæ labore alieno queat accedere. </s>
              <s>Sed conatum ſolum
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              magno in pretio
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              domeſticis exemplis tibi ſignificare poſſim FERDINANDE
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              Celſiſſime. </s>
              <s>Nam quis non ſummis laudibus in cœlum tollat Americum Veſpuccium?
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              <s>Hic ignotas, & periculoſas nauigationes adgreſſus cum primus è multis prouinciis, quæ
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              ad occaſum,
                <expan abbr="meridiemq̃">meridiemque</expan>
              ; iacent, aliquot luſtraſſet; vnde tantum Regum Chriſtianorum
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              opibus acceſſerit, cum ſacris, quæ gentibus illis
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              ſunt, tum etiam diuitiis,
                <expan abbr="quãdo">quando</expan>
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              merces inde aduectæ, quibus humano generi ſalus magno cum commodo pararetur; im­
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              menſa theſaurorum copia,
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              ornamenta regia complura ad vos comportata; quia ratio­
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              nem eas luſtrandi præmonſtrarit,
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              ; incipiendo aliis addiderit; illi orbis parti, quam
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              primus ipſe peragrauit, ex ſuo nomine nomen dedit. </s>
              <s>Ex quo liquidò conſtat præmonſtra­
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              tori plus habitum fuiſſe gratiæ non infrequenter, quàm perfectoribus. </s>
              <s>Prætereo de in­
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              duſtria innumeros alios ciues tuos, qui nouarum artium inuentores maximas copias do­
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              mum retulerunt, vrbem templis auguſtiſſimis, ædificiis ampliſſimis auxerunt, & imperij
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              fines vni tibi latè propagarunt. </s>
              <s>Vt non immeritò tu, qui tantos
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              ; viros hodie mo­
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              deraris, in maximis Regibus numerari debeas: nam ſi magnum ille cenſebat imperare
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              non auro, ſed habentibus aurum; tu nonmodo iis, quæ poſſideant homines,
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              poſſiden­
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              tibus hominibus imperes; ſed poſſidere ſcientes tranquilliſſimè regas. </s>
              <s>Ego igitur, qui Pe­
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              ripateticam Philoſophiam non ex riuulis, ſed ex ipſo fonte Ariſtotelico miſſo omni fa­
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              ctionum ſtudio nunc inſtituerim haurire, & primus qui inter tuos in hac ſecta libertate
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              recuperata meum iudicium planè ſequar; tametſi non perficiam; cur etiam laude aliqua,
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              quia ſim auſus, quia cœperim, dignus non habear? </s>
              <s>Alij nos ſequentur qui indicata ratio­
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              ne, & via magnum huic cœpto afferant incrementum, & id demum conſequantur, quod
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              in omnia tempora clarum,
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              illuſtre futurum ſit: quæ
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              verè cogitata ſunt, diutius con­
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              ſeruari ſolent, nec hominum interitu occidunt, ſed iterantur in immenſum. </s>
              <s>AEtas finem
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              trophæis affert, imperia collabuntur. </s>
              <s>Vna veritas perpetuò durat, ad quam cum omnium
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              proximè, quantum hominis ingenium fert, acceſſerit Ariſtoteles; nulla erit ætas, nulla
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              gens, nulla religio quæ ipſum nonmodò non tactura, ſed ſedulò tractatura, & aſſiduè in
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              manibus habitura ſit. </s>
              <s>Vnde etiam fore confido, vt qui in vnis auctoris huiuſce veſtigiis
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              inſiſtat, locum in philoſophia ſit ſemper habiturus. </s>
              <s>Video verò & propemodum auguror
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              te patris tui pij,
                <expan abbr="felicisq́">felicisque</expan>
              ; inſtituta
                <expan abbr="tenentẽ">tenentem</expan>
              , ita in vna litterarum omnis generis ornamenta
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              incumbere, vt breui talem quendam viſuri ſimus, qui quemadmodum à ciuibus tuis in cæ­
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              teris artibus factitatum eſt, qui eas à rudi illa vetuſtate ad priſtinam illam integritatem
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              ſua induſtria reuocarunt, ita Peripateticam diſciplinam ex omni Arabum,
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              ;
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              cultura ad bonam illam, & expolitam ſit redacturus. </s>
              <s>Talia tu commoda cupidis optima­
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              rum artium præſtas. </s>
              <s>Quare laudent ciues tui pietatem, magnificentiam̀ milites celebrent,
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              temperantiam tui familiares
                <expan abbr="admirẽtur">admirentur</expan>
              , iuſtitiam,
                <expan abbr="amplitudinemq́">amplitudinemque</expan>
              ; omnes ſummis præco­
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              niis tollant; mihi quidem vnum hoc munificentiæ genus dignum videtur, vt omnes oculos
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