Alberti, Leone Battista, De re aedificatoria, 1485
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              <s id="N4017A6">Et patent quidem atque admodum in promptu extant laudes et ui
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              tia maxime publicorum opus: in quibus magis ad ſe
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              neſcio quo pacto trahit quod indecens eſt /
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              ad ſe admirandum
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              quod pulchre perfectum et omni ex parte abſolutum conſtet. </s>
              <s id="N4017B7">Ac
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              mirum quidem quid ita ſit cur monente natura & docti et indoc
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              ti omnes in artibus et rationibus rerum quid nam inſit aut recti:
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              aut praui confeſtim ſentimus: Eſtque præſertim in rebus eiuſmodi
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              ſenſus oculorum unus omnium acerrimus: Quo fit ut ſiquid ſe
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              obtulerit: in quo aliquid curtum / claudicans / redundans inane:
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              aut inconditum ſit / illico commoueamur: et lepidiora eſſe deſide
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              remus. </s>
              <s id="N4017C8">Cur id accidat
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              omnes intelligimus / tamen ſi rogemur
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              emendari corrigique poſſe negabit nemo. </s>
              <s id="N4017D1">At qualis ea ſit ratio exe
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              quendi: non erit omnium explicaſſe: Sed ſolum in ea re bene con
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              ſultorum: Bene quidem conſulti eſt omnia præcogitaſſe et præfi
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              niſſe animo & mente / ne in opere aut perficiundo. </s>
              <s id="N4017DA">aut iam abſolu
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              to
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              ſit hoc noluiſſem /
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              illud maluiſſem. </s>
              <s id="N4017E3">Et mirum qui
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              dem
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              non leuiſſimas penas male conſtructi operis pendamus:
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              Quod enim temere et inconſulti aggreſſi initio non perpendera
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              mus / temporum ſucceſſu tandem recognoſcimus: Ex quo fit aut
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              æternum ob erroris offenſam peniteat: ſi non deleatur ac emende
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              tur: aut ſi demoliatur / impenſarum et iacturæ ratio / iudiciique tui
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              leuitas & inconſtantia damnetur. </s>
              <s id="N4017F6">Iuliuſ Cæſar ædem a
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              a fundamentis incohatam / magnoque ſumptu abſolutam / quia non
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              tota ad animum ei reſponderet / totam diruiſſe affirmat Suetoni
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              us. </s>
              <s id="N401803">Qua quidem in re etiam apud nos poſteros uituperandus ue
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              nit ſiquid tum non ſatis quæ ad rem facerent præcogitauit: aut ſi
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              forte quæ tum erant recte inſtituta potuit poſtea leuitatis errore
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              odiſſe.</s>
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              <s id="N40180E">Iccirco uetus optime edificantium mos mihi quidem ſemper pro
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              babitur: ut non perſcriptione modo et pictura / uerum etiam mo
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              dulis
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              factis aſſerula ſeu qua uis re uniuerſum opus et
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              ſingule cunctarum partium dimenſiones de conſilio inſtructiſſi
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              morum iterum atque iterum penſitemus atque examinentur prius
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              quid aliud aggrediare quod impenſam aut curam exigat. </s>
              <s id="N401823">In mo</s>
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