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

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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16229" xml:space="preserve">Ma quella ſerà piu ſocile ſe le ſonti aperte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16230" xml:space="preserve">correnti ſeranno.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16231" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16232" xml:space="preserve">Tratta della inuehtione dell’ucque, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16233" xml:space="preserve">rinchiude il ſuo diſcorſo in queſta ſomma, che l’acque, buero ſi trouano aperte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16234" xml:space="preserve">dallanatura dimoſira-
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            te, come ſono i Fonti, i Fiumi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16235" xml:space="preserve">altreuene aperte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16236" xml:space="preserve">manifeste, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16237" xml:space="preserve">pero dice Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16238" xml:space="preserve">Ma quella, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16239" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16240" xml:space="preserve">òuero ſi trouano aſcoſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16241" xml:space="preserve">ſotterra,
              <lb/>
            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16242" xml:space="preserve">queſte, ò dalla forma, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16243" xml:space="preserve">faccia delluogo ſi trouano, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16244" xml:space="preserve">gl’inditij ſono prima efpoſti da Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16245" xml:space="preserve">dicendo.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16246" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16247" xml:space="preserve">Ma ſe non correranno deueſi ſotterra cercarei capi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16248" xml:space="preserve">raccoglierla, le quai coſe in queſto modo dcono eſſere eſperi-
              <lb/>
            mentate, che ſteſo in terra alcuno con i denti appoggiati prima, che il Sol naſca doue l’acqua ſi deuetrouare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16249" xml:space="preserve">poſto
              <lb/>
            in terra il mento, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16250" xml:space="preserve">fermato ſopra un Zocco piccolo ſi riguardi il pacſe d’intorno, perche in queſto modo fermato
              <lb/>
            il mento la uiſta non anderà pìu alto eleuata del biſogno, ma con certo fine i paeſi à liuellata altezza equale all’ori-
              <lb/>
            zonte diſegnerà. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16251" xml:space="preserve">Allhora doue ſi ſcorgeranno gli humori in ſpesſirſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16252" xml:space="preserve">in creſparſi inſicme, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16253" xml:space="preserve">in acre ſolleuarſi
              <lb/>
            iui biſogna cauare, perche queſto ſegno non ſi può fate in luogo ſecco.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16254" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16255" xml:space="preserve">Et pone il modo dicendo, che ſe alcuno la mattina à buona bora ſi ſtender à in terra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16256" xml:space="preserve">guarder à per lo piano dell’ orizonte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16257" xml:space="preserve">uedr à alcuni ſu-
              <lb/>
            mi leuarſi dal terreno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16258" xml:space="preserve">increſparſi come fa il fumo, che eſce dalle legna uerdi, quando hanno il fuoco di ſotto, prender à mditio di acque, per-
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            che doue eſalano queſti uapori e ſegno, che abbonda l’humore ilquale e tirato dal Sole, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16259" xml:space="preserve">queſto inditio prendono ancho quelii, che cauano
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            le minere, perciò che, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16260" xml:space="preserve">dalla quantit à del uapore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16261" xml:space="preserve">dal colore prendono, argomento della quahtà della minera, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16262" xml:space="preserve">uuole Palladio, che que
              <lb/>
            ſta proua ſi faccia nel meſe d’ Agoſto, leggi tutta queſta materia al ſettimo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16263" xml:space="preserve">ottauo capo della ſua agricol@ura, posto questo natur ale mdi-
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            tio uiene Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16264" xml:space="preserve">ad eſponere quelli argomenti, che ſi cauano dalla quaht à dellaterra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16265" xml:space="preserve">dice.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16266" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16267" xml:space="preserve">Ancho anuertir deue chi cerca l’acque, di che natura ſia il luogo.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16268" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16269" xml:space="preserve">Et ne rende la ragione dicendo.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16270" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16271" xml:space="preserve">Perche certi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16272" xml:space="preserve">determinati ſono i luoghi doue naſcono l’acque.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16273" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16274" xml:space="preserve">Et ci eſpone la natura de i luoghi, il che è facile nell’autore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16275" xml:space="preserve">non ha biſogno di noſtra dichiaratione.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16276" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16277" xml:space="preserve">Nella creta e ſottile, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16278" xml:space="preserve">poca, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16279" xml:space="preserve">non copia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16280" xml:space="preserve">quella non di ottimo ſapore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16281" xml:space="preserve">coſi e ſottile nel ſabbione diſciolto,
              <lb/>
            ma ſe ella ſi trouerà in luoghi piu basſi ſerà fangoſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16282" xml:space="preserve">inſuaue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16283" xml:space="preserve">Nella terra negra ſi trouano ſudori, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16284" xml:space="preserve">ſtille non
              <lb/>
            groſſe, le quali raccolte per le pioggie del uerno ne i ſpes ſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16285" xml:space="preserve">ſodi luoghi danno giu. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16286" xml:space="preserve">Queſti ſono di ottimo ſapore.
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16287" xml:space="preserve">Dalla ghiara ueramente mediocri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16288" xml:space="preserve">non certeuene ſi trouano, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16289" xml:space="preserve">queſte ſono di mirabil ſoauità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16290" xml:space="preserve">coſi ancora dal
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            ſabbione maſchio, dall’arena, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16291" xml:space="preserve">dal carbõchio piu certe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16292" xml:space="preserve">piu ſtabili ſono le copie dell’acque, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16293" xml:space="preserve">queſte ſono di buon
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            ſapore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16294" xml:space="preserve">Dal ſaſſo roſſo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16295" xml:space="preserve">abbondanti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16296" xml:space="preserve">buone uengono, ſe tra le uene non ſcorreranno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16297" xml:space="preserve">non ſcoleranno, ma ſot-
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            to le radici de i monti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16298" xml:space="preserve">ne i ſelici piu copioſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16299" xml:space="preserve">piu abbondanti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16300" xml:space="preserve">queſte piu fredde, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16301" xml:space="preserve">piu ſane, ma ne i fonti
              <lb/>
            campeſtri ſalſe ſono, graui, tepide, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16302" xml:space="preserve">inſoaui, ſe non romperanno uenendo da i monti ſotterra nel mezzo de i cam-
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            pi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16303" xml:space="preserve">quelle hanno la ſoauità dell’acque montane, che ſono coperte d’intorno da gli alberi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16304" xml:space="preserve">Ma i ſegni à che maniere
              <lb/>
            di terre ſotto ſtanno le acque oltra i ſopraſcritti, queſti ſeranno, ſe egli ſi trouerà che ci naſca il ſottil Giunco, la Salice
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0202-03" xlink:href="note-0202-03a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            erratica, l’Alno, il Vitice, l’Arundine, l’Hedere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16305" xml:space="preserve">altre coſe ſimiglianti, che non poſſono uenire in luce ne nutrirſi
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            da ſe ſenza l’humore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16306" xml:space="preserve">Sogliono le ſteſſe coſe eſſer nate nelle Lacuni, le quali ſtando ancho oltra il reſto del campo
              <lb/>
            riceuono l’acque delle pioggie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16307" xml:space="preserve">per lo uerno ne i campi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16308" xml:space="preserve">longamente per la capacità conſeruano l’humore, alle
              <lb/>
            quai coſe non ſi deue dare fede, ma in quei paeſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16309" xml:space="preserve">in quelle terre doue non ſono lagune, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16310" xml:space="preserve">che naſcono per natu-
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            ra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16311" xml:space="preserve">non per ſemente, iui ſi deue l’acqua cercare.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16312" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16313" xml:space="preserve">Ma quello, che appartiene alla industria dell’huomo per trouar l’acque è toccato da Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16314" xml:space="preserve">dicendo.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16315" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16316" xml:space="preserve">Ma in quei luoghi, nei quali ſimili inuentioni non ſeranno ſignificate, in queſto modo ſi deono eſperimentare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16317" xml:space="preserve">Cauiſi
              <lb/>
            per ogni uerſo il luogo alto piedi tre, largo nõ meno di piedi cinque, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16318" xml:space="preserve">in eſſo poſto ſia uerſo il trammontar del Sole
              <lb/>
            uno bacile di Ramo, ò di Piombo, ò uero una conca, di queſti quello, che ſerà pronto uoglio, che ſi unga dentro di
              <lb/>
            oglio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16319" xml:space="preserve">riuerſo ſi metta, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16320" xml:space="preserve">la bocca della caua ſia di canne, ò di frondi coperta, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16321" xml:space="preserve">di ſopra ui ſi metta della terra, di-
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0202-04" xlink:href="note-0202-04a" xml:space="preserve">40</note>
            poi il giorno ſeguente ſia ſcoperta, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16322" xml:space="preserve">ſe nel uaſo ſeranno goccie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16323" xml:space="preserve">ſudori queſto luogo hauerà dell’acqua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16324" xml:space="preserve">Ap-
              <lb/>
            preſſo ſe uno uaſo fatto di Creta non cotta in quella caua con quella ragione ſerà coperto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16325" xml:space="preserve">quel luogo hauerâ del-
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            l’acqua eſſendo poi ſcoperto il uaſo ſera humido, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16326" xml:space="preserve">ancho ſi diſcioglierà dall’humore, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16327" xml:space="preserve">ſe in quella caua ſi mette-
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            ra una ciocca di lana, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16328" xml:space="preserve">nel di ſeguente ſarà ſtruccata l’acqua di quella, dimoſtrerà quel luogo hauer copia di acqua.
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16329" xml:space="preserve">Ne meno auuerrà ſe ui ſerà acconcia una lucerna, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16330" xml:space="preserve">piena d’oglio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16331" xml:space="preserve">acceſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16332" xml:space="preserve">in quel luogo coperta, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16333" xml:space="preserve">nel di ſe-
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            guente non ſara aſciugata, ma hauerà li auanzi dell’oglio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16334" xml:space="preserve">del papero, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16335" xml:space="preserve">eſſa ſi trouerà humida, dara ſegno d’ab-
              <lb/>
            bondanza d’acqua, perche ogni tepore à ſe tira gli humori: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16336" xml:space="preserve">Ancho, ſe in quel luogo ſerà fatto fuoco, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16337" xml:space="preserve">molto riſcal-
              <lb/>
            data la terra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16338" xml:space="preserve">aduſta, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16339" xml:space="preserve">da ſe ſuſciterà un uapore nebuloſo, queſto luogo hauerà dell’acqua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16340" xml:space="preserve">Poi che tai coſe in
              <lb/>
            queſto modo tentate ſeranno, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16341" xml:space="preserve">ritrouati i ſegni ſopraſcritti, all’hora in quel luogo ſi deue cauare il pozzo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16342" xml:space="preserve">ſe
              <lb/>
            egli ſi trouerà il capo dell’acqua, ancho piu pozzi d’intorno ſi deono cauare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16343" xml:space="preserve">tutti per una caua in un luogo ſteſſo
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0202-05" xlink:href="note-0202-05a" xml:space="preserve">50</note>
            ſi deono condurre.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16344" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16345" xml:space="preserve">Argomenti del ſito, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16346" xml:space="preserve">forma del luogo.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16347" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16348" xml:space="preserve">Et queſte coſe ne i monti, nelle regioni Settentrionali ſpecialmente ſi deono cercare, perciò che in quelli, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16349" xml:space="preserve">piu dolci,
              <lb/>
            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16350" xml:space="preserve">piu ſane, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16351" xml:space="preserve">piu copioſe ſono le acque, imperoche ſono riuolte dal corſo del Sole, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16352" xml:space="preserve">però in tai luoghi gli albe-
              <lb/>
            ri ſono ſpesſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16353" xml:space="preserve">le ſelue, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16354" xml:space="preserve">i monti hanno l’ombre loro oſtanti, che i raggi del Sole à terra dritti, non uenghino,
              <lb/>
            ne posſino aſciugare gli humori. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16355" xml:space="preserve">Gli ſpatij ancho de i monti riceuono le pioggie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16356" xml:space="preserve">per la ſpeſlezza delle ſelue iui
              <lb/>
            le neue da l’ombre de gli alberi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16357" xml:space="preserve">de i monti lungamente ſi conſeruano, dapoi liquefatte colano per le uene della
              <lb/>
            terra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16358" xml:space="preserve">coſi peruengono alle intime radici de i monti da gli quali erompeno gli ſcorrenti corſi de i fonti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16359" xml:space="preserve">Al con-
              <lb/>
            trario ne i luoghi campeſtri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16360" xml:space="preserve">piani hauer non ſi poſſono le copie dell’acque, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16361" xml:space="preserve">ſe pure ſono, al meno mal ſane ſi
              <lb/>
            trouano, perche il uehemente impeto del Sole, perche niuna ombra gli oſta: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16362" xml:space="preserve">bogliendo aſciuga l’humore de i cam-
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0202-06" xlink:href="note-0202-06a" xml:space="preserve">60</note>
            pi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16363" xml:space="preserve">ſe iui ſono acque apparẽti di quelle la ſottilisſima parte dalla ſottile ſalubrità l’aere rimouendo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16364" xml:space="preserve">leuando por
              <lb/>
            ta nello impeto del cielo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16365" xml:space="preserve">quelle, che dure ſono, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16366" xml:space="preserve">grauisſime, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16367" xml:space="preserve">in ſuaui, quelle (dico) laſciate ſono ne i ſonti
              <lb/>
            campeſtri.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16368" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16369" xml:space="preserve">Non ſempre la natura con larghi fiumi, con ſpeſſe fonti, ò con aperti inditij ci dimoſtra l’abbondanza dell’acque, ma ſpeſſo tra le uiſcere della
              <lb/>
            terra come ſangue nelle uene raccoglie l’acque, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16370" xml:space="preserve">per luoghi aſcoſi, le conduce; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16371" xml:space="preserve">però uolendo noi con industria ritrouare quello, che la na-
              <lb/>
            tura ci tiene aſcoſo, à quello prouede Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16372" xml:space="preserve">nel preſente luogo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16373" xml:space="preserve">ci inſegna à ritrouare gli inditij, quando la natura non ce li moſtraſſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16374" xml:space="preserve">
              <lb/>
            à cauare i pozzi, ne i quali è d’auuertire, che non ſi troua l’acqua, ſe prima non ſi ua tanto ſotto, che ci ſtia il letto del fiume ſopra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16375" xml:space="preserve">ol-
              <lb/>
            tra di queſto ci uuole induſtria per fuggir il pericolo, che il terreno non cada, ò che la eſſalatione non ci offenda, perche bene ſpeſſo dal ter-
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            reno cauato eſcono alcuni uenenoſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16376" xml:space="preserve">peſtiferi uapori, come ben ſanno quelli, che cauano le minere, à i quali in queſto caſo ſi deue di-
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            mandar conſiglio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16377" xml:space="preserve">Vitr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16378" xml:space="preserve">con queſto ci conchiude il trattamento dell’inuentione dell’acque, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16379" xml:space="preserve">Plinio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16380" xml:space="preserve">Palladio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16381" xml:space="preserve">molti altri ſe ne
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            banno ſeruito à punto di questo libro.</s>
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