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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head105" xml:space="preserve">DELLA ARCHITETTVRA
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          DI M. VITRVVIO.</head>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head106" xml:space="preserve">PROEMIO.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17201" xml:space="preserve">IMAGGIORI de, i, Greci conſtituirono coſi grandi honori à que nobili Athleti,
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            che uinto haueſſero i giuochi Olimpij, Pithij, Iſtmici, e Nemei, che non ſolamente
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            ſtando quelli tra la moltitudine de gli huomini con la palma, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17202" xml:space="preserve">con la corona rippor
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            tano lode; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17203" xml:space="preserve">ma ancho nelle loro patrie ritornati con uittoria trionfando nelle carette
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            ſono dentro delle mura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17204" xml:space="preserve">delle loro terre portati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17205" xml:space="preserve">in uita loro per publica delibera-
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            tione uiueno d’entrata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17206" xml:space="preserve">Queſto adunque auuertendo io, prendo meraniglia, perche
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            cagione non ſono attribuiti gli iſtesſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17207" xml:space="preserve">ancho piu grandi honori, à gli ſcrittori, che
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            continuamẽte danno ad ognuno infinita utilità, Imperoche piu degna coſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17208" xml:space="preserve">piu ra
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            gionenole era, che queſto fuſſe ordinato, perche gli Athleti con l’eſſer citio fanno i cor
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            pi loro piu robuſti, ma gli ſcrittori non ſolamente fanno perfetti i lor propi ſentimen
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            ti, ma anchora di tutti gli altri apparecchiandoli ne i libri i precetti d’onde habbiano
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            ad imparare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17209" xml:space="preserve">facciano i loro animi acuti, e riſuegliati. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17210" xml:space="preserve">Perche di gratia di che giouamento e ſtato à gli huomini
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            Milone Crotoniate, perche egli ſia ſtato inſuperabile? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17211" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17212" xml:space="preserve">gli altri ancho, che in quella maniera ſono ſtati uincitori?
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17213" xml:space="preserve">ſe non che quelli mentre uiſſero tra i ſuoi cittadini hanno hauuto di nobiltà. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17214" xml:space="preserve">Ma i precetti di Pithagora di Democri-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0211-03" xlink:href="note-0211-03a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            to, di Platone, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17215" xml:space="preserve">di Ariſtotile, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17216" xml:space="preserve">di tutti gli altri Saui tutto il giorno di continua iuduſtria ornati, non ſolo à i loro
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            Cittadini, ma à tutte le genti freſchi, e fioriti frutti mandano in luce, de i quali coloro, che da i teneri anni con ab-
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            bondanza di dottrine ſatiati ſi ſono, hanno ottimi ſentimenti della ſapienza, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17217" xml:space="preserve">danno alle Città coſtumi della huma
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            nità, ragioni eguali, e leggi, lequai coſe quando ſono lontane, niuna Città puo ſtar bene. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17218" xml:space="preserve">Eſſendo adunque dalla
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            prudenza de ſcrittori coſi gran doni in priuato, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17219" xml:space="preserve">in publico à gli huomini apparecchiati, io penſo che non ſolamen
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            te dare ſi debbiano à quelli corone, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17220" xml:space="preserve">palme. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17221" xml:space="preserve">ma ancho per decreto deliberare di dargli i trionfi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17222" xml:space="preserve">tra le ſedi de gli Dei
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            conſecrargli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17223" xml:space="preserve">Io narrero di molti loro penſamenti alcuni eſſempi, che ſtati ſono utili à gli huomini, per paſſare la lo
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            ro uita commodamente, i quali chiunque uorrà riconoſcere, conuerrà conſeſſare queſti eſſer degni di grande ho-
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            nore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17224" xml:space="preserve">Et prima io ponero una ragione di Platone tra molti utilisſimi diſcorſi, in che maniera ſia ſtata da lui
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            eſplicata.</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">40</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17226" xml:space="preserve">ISPEDITE le ragioni, che appartengono alle fabriche, ſi publiche come priuate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17227" xml:space="preserve">Hora ſi uiene alla ſeconda parte
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            principale dell’ Architettura detta Gnomonica, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17228" xml:space="preserve">ſi uede gli effetti, che fanno i lucenti corpi del Cielo con i raggi loro nel
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            mondo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17229" xml:space="preserve">perche la preſente parte ci leua da terra mentre contempla la diuinità del Cielo con la grandezza ſua, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17230" xml:space="preserve">col
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            ſuo uelocisſimo mouimento, però Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17231" xml:space="preserve">pone un Proemio à ſimile trattamento conuenientisſimo, parendogli, che quegli
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            huomini, che ritrouato hanno le ſottilisſime ragioni delle alte coſe, degni ſiano de gli honori Celeſti, perche non tanto al-
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            l’utilità loro quanto al beneficio commune hanno riguardato, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17232" xml:space="preserve">non in un tempo, in una età, in un ſecolo ſolo, ma del
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            contmuo ſono, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17233" xml:space="preserve">ſeranno ſempre di perpetuo giouamento, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17234" xml:space="preserve">quanto e piu nobile, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17235" xml:space="preserve">piu preſtante l’animo del corpo, tanto e piu degna la
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            uirtù d’ ogn’ altro bene. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17236" xml:space="preserve">Felici adunque chiamar ſi poſſono quegli ſaui, che con belle, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17237" xml:space="preserve">utili inuentioni s’hanno procacciato quella lode, & </s>
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            quella gloria, il frutto dellaquale è paſſato in ſempiterno beneſicio del mondo, e tanto piu quanto ci hanno mostrato le coſe nobili, e precioſe,
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            che ſi come è piu giocõdo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17239" xml:space="preserve">piu grato all’huomo uedere una minima parte delle loro amate coſe, che trattare le membra di tutti gli altri cor-
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            pi, coſi è piu degno ſapere una minuma ragione delle alte, erunote coſe, che entrare nella cognitione di molte, che ci ſono famigliari, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17240" xml:space="preserve">pero
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            ben dice un Poeta.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17242" xml:space="preserve">Veramente felici, è fortunate,
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            Furon quell’alme, à quai prima fu dato,
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            Conoſcer coſe ſi belle, e pregiate.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17243" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17244" xml:space="preserve">Ben lor ſucceſſe quel penſier beato,
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            Che fu da ſcender, à ſtellatì chiostri,
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            Et pareggiar con la Virtute il Fato.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17245" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17246" xml:space="preserve">Quest’è credibil, che gli horribil moſtri,
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            Vinceſſer de gli errori, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17247" xml:space="preserve">ch’ogni gioco
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            Laſciaſſer, ch’ammoliſce i petti noſtri.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17248" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17249" xml:space="preserve">Non ſcaldò i petti lor Pardente fuoco.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17250" xml:space="preserve">Di Venere crudel, ne uino, ò coſa,
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            Ch’impediſſe lor corſo molto, ò poco.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17251" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17252" xml:space="preserve">Non la turba del Foro litigioſa,
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            Non la dura Militia, non la uana,
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            Ambitione, ò la gloria pompoſa.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17254" xml:space="preserve">L’ingordiggia dell’or empia, inhumana,
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            Non piegò punto gli animi di quelli,
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            Ch’eran riuolti alla parte ſoprana.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17255" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17256" xml:space="preserve">Chi uorrà adunque comparare à ſimil huomini gli Athleti? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17257" xml:space="preserve">chi i Gladiatori? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17258" xml:space="preserve">ò altri, che per uittorie, ò, beneficij preſenti s’hanno obbligate le gen
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            ti? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17259" xml:space="preserve">meritamente adunque douemo inſieme con Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17260" xml:space="preserve">giudicare, che gli inuentori delle utili, è belle coſe meritino piu presto gli honori celesti,
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            che quelli, che à tempo de Greei fiorirono di gloria per le forze del corpo dimoſtrate in quei giuochi, che ad honore di diuerſi Dei, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17261" xml:space="preserve">heroi,
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            coſi ponpoſamente, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17262" xml:space="preserve">con tanto concorſo di popoli ſi celebrauano. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17263" xml:space="preserve">Come erano i Giuochi Olympij in honore di Gioue, i Pithij in honor
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            d’ Appolline, i Nemei in honore di Archimoro, gli Iſthmici in honore di Palemone. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17264" xml:space="preserve">Ma noi laſciamo quello, che in Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17265" xml:space="preserve">è da ſe manifeſto, e
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            uegniamo ad alcune belle inuentioni, che egli pone di alcuni antichi ſaui, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17266" xml:space="preserve">prima di Platone nel Primo, poi di Pythagora nel ſecondo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17267" xml:space="preserve">in
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0211-07" xlink:href="note-0211-07a" xml:space="preserve">70</note>
            fine di Archimede, di Eratoſthene, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17268" xml:space="preserve">di Archita nel Terzo.</s>
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