Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                <s id="s.006404">LIBRO NONO</s>
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                <s id="s.006405">DELL' ARCHITETTVRA DI
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                M. VITRVVIO.</s>
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                  Proemio.
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                  <s id="s.006407">I Maggiori de i Greci conſtituirono coſi grandi honori a quelli nobili
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                  A thleti, che uinto haueſſero i giuochi Olimpij, Pithij, Iſtmici, & Ne­
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                  mei, che non ſolamente ſtando quelli tra la moltitudine de gli huomi­
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                  ni ragunata, con la palma, & con la corona riportano lode, ma anche
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                  ritornati nelle patrie loro con uittoria trionfando nelle carrette ſono
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                  dentro delle mura, & delle loro patrie portati, & in uita loro per publi­
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                  ca deliberatione uiueno d'entrata. </s>
                  <s id="s.006408">Queſto adunque auuertendo io, prendo merauiglia,
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                  perche cagione non ſono attribuiti gli iſteſsi, & ancho piu grandi honori a gli ſcrittori, i
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                  quali del continuo a tutte le genti preſtano infinite utilità: imperoche piu degna coſa, &
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                  piu ragioneuole era, che queſto fuſſe ordinato, perche gli Athleti con lo eſſercitio fan­
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                  no i corpi loro piu robuſti: ma gli ſcrittori non ſolamente fanno perfetti i loro proprij
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                  ſentimenti, ma anchora di tutti apparecchiandogli ne i libri precetti, d'onde habbiano
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                  ad imparare, & rendere i loro animi piu acuti, & riſuegliati: perche di gratia mi ſi dica, di
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                  che giouamento è ſtato a gli huomini Milone Crotoniate, perche egli ſia ſtato inſupera­
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                  bile, & gli altri, che in quella maniera ſono ſtati uincitori? </s>
                  <s id="s.006409">ſe non che eſsi mentre uiſſero
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                  hanno tra ſuoi cittadini hauuto la nobilta. </s>
                  <s id="s.006410">Ma i precetti di Pithagora, di Democrito, di
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                  Platone, & di Ariſtotile, & di tutti gli altri ſaui tutto il giorno di perpetua induſtria orna
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                  ti, non ſolo a i loro cittadini, ma a tutte le genti freſchi, & fioriti frutti mandano in luce,
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                  de i quali coloro, che da i teneri anni con abondanza di dottrine ſi ſono ſatiati, hanno ot­
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                  timi ſentimenti della ſapienza, & danno alle città coſtumi della humanità, ragioni eguali,
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                  & leggi. </s>
                  <s id="s.006411">Lequali coſe quando ſono lontane, niuna città puo ſtare, & conſeruarſi intiera. </s>
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                  Eſſendo adunque dalla prudenza de gli ſcrittori coſi gran doni in priuato, & in publico
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                  a gli huomini apparecchiati, io penſo, che non pure ſi debbiano dare a quelli corone, &
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                  palme, ma anche per decreto deliberare di dargli trionfi, & di conſecrargli tra le ſedi de
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                  gli Dei. </s>
                  <s id="s.006413">Io narrerò alcuni eſſempi di molti loro penſieri, che ſono ſtati di gran gioua­
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                  mento a gli huomini per paſſare commodamente la uita loro, i quali chi uorrà riconoſce­
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                  re conuerrà confeſſare queſti eſſer degni di grandi honori, & prima io ponerò una ragio­
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                  ne di Platone tra molti utiliſsimi diſcorſi, in che maniera ella ſia ſtata da lui eſplicata. </s>
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                  Ispedite le ragioni che appartengono alle fabriche sì publiche, come priuate, hora ſi
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                  uiene alla ſeconda parte principale della Architettura detta Gnomonica: per la­
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                  quale ſi uedeno gli effetti, che fanno i lucenti corpi del cielo con i raggi loro nel
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                  mondo. </s>
                  <s id="s.006415">& perche la ragione della parte preſente ci leua da terra mentre contem­
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                  pla la diuinità del cielo con la grandezza, bellezza, & ſuo uelociſſimo mouimento, però Vitru.
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                  pone un proemio a ſimile trattamento conuenientiſſimo: parendogli, che quelli huomini, i quali
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                  hanno trouato le ſottiliſſime ragioni delle alte coſe digniſſimi ſieno de gli honori celeſti, perche
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                  non tanto alle dignità loro, quanto al beneficio commune hanno riguardato, & non in un tem­
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                  po, in una età, in un ſecolo ſolo, ma del continuo ſono, & ſaranno ſempre di perpetuo giouamen-
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