Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                  norata fatica. </s>
                  <s id="s.007253">però nel fine del libro è poſta la detta tauola, alla quale rimetto i lettori. </s>
                  <s id="s.007254">Gli an­
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                  tichi poſero quar antaotto imagini, & cognobbero mille, & uintidue ſtelle. </s>
                  <s id="s.007255">Vero è che alcuni han
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                  no uoluto fare d'una imagine piu parti, & però hanno paſſato il numero predetto. </s>
                  <s id="s.007256">Tolomeo ne
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                  mette quarantaotto. </s>
                  <s id="s.007257">Queste ſono chiamate tanto dalle coſe animate, quanto dalle coſe inanima
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                  te; & tanto dalle ragioneuoli, quanto da quelle, che mancano di ragione; & tanto dalle fiere, quan
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                  to dalle domestiche, sì di terra, come di mare, & questo dico con grande merauiglia, come i Gre­
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                  ci (ſe i Greci ſono ſtati, et non altri piu antichi) habbiano hauuto tanta autorità, che con tanto con
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                  ſenſo di ognuno habbiano empito il cielo delle lor fauole, che confirmate dapoi per niun modo ſo­
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                  no ſtate mutate. </s>
                  <s id="s.007258">Ma in fine l'aduiatione de i cortegiani, & la uoglia de i primi ordinatori, come
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                  Poeti, & Aſtronomi, per fare eterna memoria d'alcune coſe notabili, o per adulare a i loro ſigno­
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                  ri, hanno ritrouato luoghi nel cielo da collocarui le coſe amate da quelli, la doue non poterono e­
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                  glino mai ſalire. </s>
                  <s id="s.007259">Come Virgilio poſe tra gli artigli dello Scorpione la ſtella di Ceſare. </s>
                  <s id="s.007260">Ma è co­
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                  ſa mirabile, che i Greci, od'altri habbiano hauuto tanto priuilegio di empire il cielo de i nomi delle
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                  loro ſceler atezze, & che le fauole loro ſiano ſtate accettate ne i canoni, & nelle regole di deſcri
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                  uere il cielo. </s>
                  <s id="s.007261">Fanno mentione di que' nomi anche le ſacre lettere, come Iob parlando della poten
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                  tia di Dio dice. </s>
                  <s id="s.007262">Il quale fa l'Arcturo, & l'Orione, & le Hiade, & le parti interiori dell'Oſtro. </s>
                  <s id="s.007263">Et
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                  in un'altro luogo Dio dice di ſe ſteſſo a Iob. </s>
                  <s id="s.007264">Potrai tu riunire le riſplendide stelle Pleiade? </s>
                  <s id="s.007265">ouero
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                  diſſipare il giro d'Arcturo? </s>
                  <s id="s.007266">Produci tu Lucifero nel tempo ſuo, o fai tu naſcere ſopra l'Orizonte
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                  la ſtella detta Veſpero? </s>
                  <s id="s.007267">Ma i Greci od'altri, che ſiano ſtati primi inuentori, temendo che la leggie­
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                  rezza delle loro ribalderie, non ſi dileguaſſe, le uollero inchiodare nel cielo. </s>
                  <s id="s.007268">però cantano alcuni.
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                  Gioue infiammato d'amoroſo ardore
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                  Delle figlie de gli huomini s'acceſe
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                  Hauendo a noia l'immortal conteſe
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                  Dell'orgoglioſa moglie, e ſuo furore.
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                  Vide Caliſto, che era ſul fiore
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                  Di ſua bellezza, onde tra noi diſceſe,
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                  Et dopo i dolci baci, e le conteſe
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                  Dolci di lei, ne reſto uincitore.
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                  Giunon geloſa piena di disdegno
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                  Piglia la bella giouane, e ſtratiata
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                  Che l'hebbe, in Orſa horribil la conuerſe.
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                  L'infelice ne diè co'l ruggir ſegno
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                  Per le ſelue d'Arcadia, ma leuata
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                  Per la pietà di Gioue al Cielo s'erſe.
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                  Le imagini, che ſono uerſo il Settentrione ſono prima poſte da Vitruuio, & dice, che quel Setten
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                  trione, che da Greci è detto Arctos, ouero Helice, che altro non è, che l'Orſa maggiore, che altri
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                  dalla figura hanno chiamato il Carro: ha dietro di ſe il custode, o Guardiano, o Bootes, che ſe gli di
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                  ca, ſotto il quale non molto lontano è il ſegno della Vergine, che per Aſtrea, o per la Giuſtitia ſi
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                  pone, ſopra la cui deſtra ſpalla ſi uede una lucidiſſima ſtella, che ſi chiama Antiuindemia, per­
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                  che quando naſce, cioè quando eſce da i raggi del Sole, promette la maturità della uindemia. </s>
                  <s id="s.007274">della
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                  cui materia ſegni manifeſti ſono gli acini dell'uua mutati di colore. </s>
                  <s id="s.007275">Queſta ſtella è ſimile al ferro af
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                  focato, però Vitruuio dice, che è piu preſto candens, cioè rouente, che colorata. </s>
                  <s id="s.007276">perche gli ſcrittori
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                  gli danno uno mir abile ſplendore. </s>
                  <s id="s.007277">I Greci la chiamano Protrygetum, che in latino prouindemia,
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                  ſi dice. </s>
                  <s id="s.007278">Oltra di queſto tra le ginocchia del Guardiano è la stella nominata Arcturo, dalla quale
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                  alcuni hanno chiamato Arcturo tutta la imagine del Guardiano. </s>
                  <s id="s.007279">Ecco che Vitru. non ſolo tocca
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                  le imagini, constellationi, asteriſmi, ſegni, & figure, che tutto è uno, ma anche le stelle ſole &
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                  ſeparate, (come detto hauemo.) ſeguita poi l'Auriga, carrettieri, Ericthonio, & Orſilocho det­
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                  to, il ſito delquale è dinanzi al capo dell'orſa maggiore, & le sta attrauerſato in modo, che ſe
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