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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head1" xml:space="preserve">ALLO ILLVSTRISSIMOET
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          REVERENDISSIMO CARDINAL
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          DI FERRARA D. HIPPOLITO DA ESTE
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          DANIEL BARBARO ELETTO
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          D’AQVILEGGIA. S.</head>
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              <emph style="sc">Le belle</emph>
            inuentioni de gli buomini Illuftrisſtrisſimo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2" xml:space="preserve">Reuerens
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            disſimo Signor mio fatte a commune utiliti portano a chi non le intende
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            merauiglia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3" xml:space="preserve">a chi le intende diletto grandisſimo, perche a quelli pa,
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            re, che la natura ſiauinta, e ſuperata dall’ arte, a queſti fatta migliore,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4" xml:space="preserve">perfetta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5" xml:space="preserve">Et benche le cagioni delle coſebelle allamaggior parte naſco-
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            ſe ſiano, niente di meno il commodo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6" xml:space="preserve">il piacere è uniuerſalmente datutti
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            prouato, èſentito. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7" xml:space="preserve">Per questaragione eſſendo io ſicuro ditali due coſe mi
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            ſon poſto congran fatica allo studio della Architettura, come dicoſa, che abbraccia tutto il bello
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            delle inuentioni, che ſipoſſatrouare a commodita, e diletto di chiciuiue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8" xml:space="preserve">Loappoggio di queſta alta
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            efaticoſa impreſa è ſtato Marco Vitruuio, antico, buono, eſolo Authore, ilquale come ammaeſtra
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            to nella Dottrina de Greci, ſuegliato dalla grandezza de Latini, aiutato dalla propria inclinatione,
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            eportato dal piacere naturale di ſapere, ſi diede allo ſtudio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9" xml:space="preserve">all’ opera di ſi glorioſa Arte, anzi
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            Capomaeſtra (come il nome ſuona) dituttele. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10" xml:space="preserve">Arti, etriduſſe in uno tuttiipiu ſcielti precetti dieſſa,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11" xml:space="preserve">facendone come un corpo le diede membra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12" xml:space="preserve">parti conuenientisſime, dimodo, che ſi può uedere
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            come intiera, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13" xml:space="preserve">compita la forma ſua. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14" xml:space="preserve">Vero è che come una ſtatua nuouamente di ſotterra ritroua-
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            ta ba biſogno di molti acconciamenti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s15" xml:space="preserve">abbellimenti, perche poſſa eſſer ueduta netta, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16" xml:space="preserve">polita da
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            quelle macchie, che’ltempo, e lo bumore le bauera fatte, coſiqueſto Authore ha contratto in ſe, per
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            molte cagioni molti diffetti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17" xml:space="preserve">molte oſcurità, doue era neceſſario racconciarlo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18" xml:space="preserve">fare, che le ſue
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            bellezze ſi ſcopriſſero, accioche poſto in alto luogo come un merauiglioſo lauoro fuſſe da tutti riguar-
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            dato: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19" xml:space="preserve">al che eſſendomi io poſto gia molti anni con amore, ſtudio, e fatica nonpicciola, cercando da ogni
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            parte aiuto, e conſiglio, mi ſon forzato di andar deſtramente nel polire di coſi eccellente fattura, nel-
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            la quale io bo trouatoil tempo bauer fatto danni grandisſimi, e gli Eſpoſitoriingiurie moltonotabili,
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            però anch’ io bene ſpeſſo ho temuto di non eſſer troppo peſante di mano, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20" xml:space="preserve">chela mia pomice non ſia ſta-
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            ta troppo aſpra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21" xml:space="preserve">lo ſtuccare doue era corroſo troppo differente dal uero, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s22" xml:space="preserve">il luſtro poco dolce, & </s>
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            artificioſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s24" xml:space="preserve">La doue penſando di far bene, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s25" xml:space="preserve">di fare che gli errori mei, che poſſono eſſer molti, ó
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            ſiano deltutto leuati, ò in parte coperti, riccorro a uoi Illuſtrißimo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">Reuerendißmo Signor mio,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">con quella ſicurtâ che piglia ogni ſtudioſo ditutta la Europa, conoſcendo già molto tempo l’ buma-
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            nità, bontá, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s28" xml:space="preserve">giudicio ſuo, chiamo, erichiamo la ſua protettione, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s29" xml:space="preserve">le dedico tanta mia fatica
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            laquale prima, che V. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s30" xml:space="preserve">S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s31" xml:space="preserve">Illuſtrißima ſapeſſe douerle eſſer conſecrata, s’baueua pigliato a difen-
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            dere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s32" xml:space="preserve">a ſicurare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s33" xml:space="preserve">Hora maggiormente di honeſto obbligo ella ſera tenuta fauorirla, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s34" xml:space="preserve">come
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            quella, che ba tutte le conditioni di eccellente Architetto, tra le quali é l’humanità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s35" xml:space="preserve">piaceuolez-
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            za, congiunta con ſomma dignitá, e grandezza, ſopporterà i miei difetti, coprira glierrori, & </s>
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            fara riſplendere, quelpoco, che ſerà mediocremente buono. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s37" xml:space="preserve">A me ſerà aſſai, che allegando a fauor
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            mio, le Fabriche Regali, cheella ha fatte in Italia, in Franza, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s38" xml:space="preserve">doue è ſtata, con l’ eſſempio di
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            quelle io lalui le regole, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s39" xml:space="preserve">iprecetti contenuti nell’ opera mia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s40" xml:space="preserve">Perche hauendo uoi gettati i fonda-
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            menti ſodi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s41" xml:space="preserve">durabilinella eternità della uirtù, lo ſplendor del ſangue, la copia de i beni, e delle ric-
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            chezze, la grandezza della dignità, ui fanno riguardeuole, come un’ ornato, e celebre Edificio, alla
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            cui ſimiglianza, chinon cerca di formare la uita ſua, è in tutto fuoridella ſtrada, e del uero camino.</s>
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