Vitruvius, I Dieci Libri dell' Architettvra di M. Vitrvvio, 1556

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head62" xml:space="preserve">LIBROSESTO
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          DELLA ARCHITETTVRA
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          DIM. VITRVVIO.</head>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head63" xml:space="preserve">PROEMIO.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s13815" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">Aristippo</emph>
            Filofofo Socratico gettato dal naufragio allito de Rhodiani, hauendo
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            auuertito nell’ Arena alcune figure di Geometria in queſto modo ſi dice hauer eſclama-
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            to. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13816" xml:space="preserve">Speriamo beneò compagni poi, che qui ueggio l’orme de gli huomini. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13817" xml:space="preserve">Detto queſto
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            incontanente s’auuiò alla terra di Rhodi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13818" xml:space="preserve">dritto nel Gimnaſio ſi conduſſe, doue diſpu
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            tando della Filoſofia fu largamente donato, che nő ſolo ornò ſe ſteſſo, ma ancho à quel
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            li, che con eſſo lui erano ſtati, donò ampiamente il neſtire, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13819" xml:space="preserve">le altre coſe al uiuere ne-
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            ceſſarie, ma uolendo i ſuoi compagni ritornar nella patria, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13820" xml:space="preserve">addimandandogli, che co
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-01" xlink:href="note-0174-01a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            fa egli uoleſſe, che in nome ſuo diceſſero à caſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13821" xml:space="preserve">Egli coſi commandò allhora, che di-
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            ceſſero: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13822" xml:space="preserve">eſſer biſogno à i figliuoli apparecchiare poſſesſioni, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13823" xml:space="preserve">uiatichi di tal ſorte, che
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            poteſſero inſieme con loro nuotando uſcire del naufragio : </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13824" xml:space="preserve">perche quelli ſono i ueri pre
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            fidij della uita, à i quali ne la iniqua forza della fortuna, ne la mutatione dello ſtato, ne
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            la ruina della guerra puote alcun danno reccare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13825" xml:space="preserve">Ne meno Theophraſto accrebbe la predetta ſentenza, ilquale eſſor
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            tando gli huomini piu preſto ad eſſer uirtuoſi, che fidarſi nelle ricchezze, coſi dice, ſolo il uirtuoſo eſſer quello, tra
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            tutti gli huomini, ilquale ne foreſtieri ne i luoghi altrui, ne pouero d’amici, quando perde i familiari, ouero i pro-
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            pinqui, ſi può chiamare: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13826" xml:space="preserve">ma in ogni città è cittadino, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13827" xml:space="preserve">folo piu ſenza timore ſprezzare gli ſtrani auuenimenti
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            della fortuna: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13828" xml:space="preserve">ma chi penſa eſſer munito non da gli aiuti della dottrina, ma della buona ſorte andando per uie ſdruc
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            cioloſe pericola in uita non ſtabile ma inferma. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13829" xml:space="preserve">Lo Epicuro ſimigliantemenre afferma la fortuna dar poche coſe à i
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-02" xlink:href="note-0174-02a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            ſaui huomini, ma quelle, che ſono grandisſime, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13830" xml:space="preserve">necefſarie con i penſieri dell’animo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13831" xml:space="preserve">della mente eſſer gouerna
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            te. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13832" xml:space="preserve">Queſte coſe coſi eſſere molti Filoſofi hanno detto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13833" xml:space="preserve">ancho i poeti, iquali hanno ſcritto le antiche Comedie pro
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            nunciarono le medeſime ſentenze nella Scena, come Eucrate, Chionide, Ariſtofane, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13834" xml:space="preserve">con queſte ſpecialmente
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            Alexi: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13835" xml:space="preserve">ilquale dice per ciò deuerſi laudare gli Athenieſi: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13836" xml:space="preserve">perche le leggi di tuttii Greci sforzano, che i padri ſieno
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            da i figliuoli ſoſtentati, ma quelle de gli Athenieſi non tutti, ma quelli, che haueſſero nelle arti i loro figliuoli
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            ammaeſtrati. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13837" xml:space="preserve">Percioche tutti i doni della fortuna quando ſi danno da quella facilmente ſi toglieno: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13838" xml:space="preserve">ma le diſcipline
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            congiunte con gli animi noſtri non mancano per alcun tempo ma durano ſtabilmente con noi ſino all’ultimo del-
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            la uita. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13839" xml:space="preserve">Et però io grandisſime gratie rendo à mei progenitori, i quali approuando la legge de gli Athenieſi, mi han
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            no ammaeſtrato nelle arti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13840" xml:space="preserve">in quella ſpecialmente, che ſenza lettere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13841" xml:space="preserve">fenza quella raccomunanza di tutte le
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            dottrine, che in giro ſi uolge, non puo per alcun modo eſſer commendata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13842" xml:space="preserve">Hauendo adunque, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13843" xml:space="preserve">per la cura de i
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-03" xlink:href="note-0174-03a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            miei progenitori, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13844" xml:space="preserve">per la dottrina de i mei preccttori accreſciute in me quelle copie di diſcipline, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13845" xml:space="preserve">dilettando-
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            mi di cofe pertinenti alla uarietà delle cognitioni, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13846" xml:space="preserve">artificij, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13847" xml:space="preserve">delle ſcritture de commentari: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13848" xml:space="preserve">io ho acquiſtato con
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            l’animo quelle poſſesſioni, dellequali ne uiene queſta ſomma di tutti i frutti, che io non ho piu necesſità alcuna, & </s>
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            che io ſtimo quella eſſer la propietà delle ricchezze di deſiderare niente piu. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13850" xml:space="preserve">Ma forſe alcuni penſando queſte coſe
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            eſſer leggieri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13851" xml:space="preserve">di poco momento, hanno ſolamente quelli per ſaui, iquali abondano di ricchezze; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13852" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13853" xml:space="preserve">però molti at-
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            tendendo à queſto aggiunta l’audacia con le ricchezze ancho hanno conſeguito d’ſſer conoſciuti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13854" xml:space="preserve">Io ueramente ò
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            Ceſare non per dinari con deliberato conſiglio ho ſtudiato, ma piu preſto ho lodato la pouertà col buon nome, che
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            la copia con la mala fama : </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13855" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13856" xml:space="preserve">però egli ſi ha poca notitia del fatto mio: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13857" xml:space="preserve">ma pur penſo, che mandando in luce queſti
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            uolumi io farò ancho à i poſteri conoſciuto, ne ſi deue alcuno merauigliare, perche io ſia ignoto à molti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13858" xml:space="preserve">perche gli
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            Architetti pregano, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13859" xml:space="preserve">ambiſcono per hauer à far molte opere: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13860" xml:space="preserve">ma à me da i miei precettoti è ſtato inſegnato, che
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-04" xlink:href="note-0174-04a" xml:space="preserve">40</note>
            l’huomo pregato non pregante deue pigliare i carichi: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13861" xml:space="preserve">perche lo ingenuo colore ſi moue dalla uergogna addiman-
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            dando una coſa ſoſpettoſa, perche ſono ricercati non quei, che riceuono, ma quei che danno il beneficio percioche
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            qual coſa penſaremo, che penſi ò ſoſpetti colui, che ſia richieſto di commettere alla gratia di colui, che dimanda il
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            douer fare le ſpeſe del patrimonio, ſe non che egli giudica deuerſi ciò fare per cagione della preda, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13862" xml:space="preserve">del guadagno,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13863" xml:space="preserve">però i maggiori primamente dauano le opere à coloro, che erano di bon fangu e. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13864" xml:space="preserve">Dapoi cercauano ſe erano hone
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            ſtamente alleuati, ſtimando di douer commetterle allo ingenuo pudore, non all’audacia della proteruità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13865" xml:space="preserve">esſi ar
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            tefici, non ammaeſtrauano, fe non i ſuoi figliuoli, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13866" xml:space="preserve">i parenti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13867" xml:space="preserve">gli faceuano huomini da bene alla fede de i quali
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            in ſi gran coſa ſenza dubbio ſi commetteſſero i dinari: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13868" xml:space="preserve">Ma quando io uedo gli indotti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13869" xml:space="preserve">imperiti, che della grandez
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            za di ſi fatta diſciplina ſi uanno auantando, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13870" xml:space="preserve">quelli, che non ſolo di Architettura, ma in tutto di fabrica alcuna non
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            hanno cognitione, non poſſono ſenon lodare que padri di famiglia che confirmati con la fiducia delle lettere, che
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            hanno da ſe fabricando coſi ſtimano, che ſe egli ſi deue commettere à gli imperiti, ſe piu preſto eſſer piu degni à fare
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            la loro uolontà, che à quella d’altri cõſumare il dinaro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13871" xml:space="preserve">però niuno ſi forza far alcuna altra arte in cafa, come l’arte
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            del calzolaio, ò del ſarto, ouero alcuna dell’altre, che ſono piu facili, ſenon l’Architettura, perche quei, che ne fanno
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            profesſione, non perche habbiano l’arte uera, ma falſamente ſou detti Architetti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13872" xml:space="preserve">Per lequal coſe io ho penſato, che
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            ſia da ſcriuere tutto il corpo dell’Architettura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13873" xml:space="preserve">le ſue ragioni diligentisſimamente, penſando che queſto dono
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            non ferà ingrato à tutte le genti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13874" xml:space="preserve">però perche nel Quinto io ho ſcritto affine della utilità delle opere communi
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            in queſto eſp@cherò le ragioni, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13875" xml:space="preserve">le miſure proportionate di particolari edifici.</s>
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              <emph style="sc">Tratta</emph>
            Vit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13878" xml:space="preserve">nel ſeſto libro de gli edificij priuati, poi che ha fornito quella parte, che apparteneua alle opere publi-
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            che, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13879" xml:space="preserve">communi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13880" xml:space="preserve">Propone al preſente libro un bellisſimo proemio, ilquale tanto piacque à Galeno, che una gran parte
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            ne preſe in quel libro doue egli eſſorta i giouani alle littere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13881" xml:space="preserve">Fornito il Proemio ci da alcuni precetti generali di auucrti-
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            menti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13882" xml:space="preserve">conſiderationi parlando nel primo capitolo di diuerſe qualità de paeſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13883" xml:space="preserve">uarij aſpetti del cielo, ſecondo iqua
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            li ſi deono diſporre gli edificij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13884" xml:space="preserve">Et nel ſecondo facendo auuertito l’Architetto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13885" xml:space="preserve">ricordandoli dell’officio ſuo tratta nel
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            restante del libro de gli edificij priuati, cominciando da quelle parti delle caſe, che prima ci uengono m contra e penetran
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            do poi à poco à poco nelle piu rimote, è ſecrete, quaſi ci mena per mano, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13886" xml:space="preserve">ci conduce à ueder di luogo in luogo le Stanze cittadineſche, non
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            laſciando parte, che alla utilità, al commodo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13887" xml:space="preserve">alla bellezza conuegna, ne ſi cõtenta di queſto, che gentilmente ci conduce à piacere in </s>
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