Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                  que tronchi. </s>
                  <s id="s.002880">doue gli Architetti ad imitatione di quelle, induſſero le faſcie di ſopra, & di ſotto
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                  i fuſti delle colonne, & accrebbero poi quelle parti, di modo, che la parte di ſopra chiamarono
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                  capitello, & quella di ſotto nominarono baſa. </s>
                  <s id="s.002881">Nella baſa oßeruarono, che la larghezza ſua
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                  fuſſe maggiore dell'altezza, dapoi, che ſportaße alquanto piu del fusto della colonna, ad imita­
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                  tione del piede humano: & coſi anche l'infima parte della baſa fuſſe alquanto piu larga di quel­
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                  la di ſopra; ſi come era il piedeſtalo piu largo della baſa: & il fondamento piu largo del piede­
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                  ſtalo, ad imitatione della natura, come hauemo detto. </s>
                  <s id="s.002882">Baſa è nome Greco, in latino ſi chiama
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                  ſpira. </s>
                  <s id="s.002883">perche ſpira ſignifica giro, o uoluta: & le baſe erano ritonde, imitando i cerchi, & le anel­
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                  la. </s>
                  <s id="s.002884">ma i Greci chiamano baſe con miglior comparatione, perche baſis, uuol dire piede: & la ba­
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                  ſa è piede della colonna. </s>
                  <s id="s.002885">& però anche i nomi delle parti delle baſe, da Greci ſono ſtati poſti
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                  con queſto riſpetto del piede humano, & d'altre parti, & anche del ſuo calzare, perche fanno
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                  le baſe di membri coſi chiamat, come ſono Plinthus, Torus, Scocia, Trochilus, Quadra, Su­
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                  percilium, Aſtragali. </s>
                  <s id="s.002886">Plinthus è nome Greco, ſignifica mattone, laterculum, ouero cataſtrum:
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                  & da uulgari è detto orlo: perche zocco è quello, che è ſotto la baſa; che io chiamerei piu pre­
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                  ſto ſottobaſa, che zocco: & Plinthus chiamerei zocco, o quadrello. </s>
                  <s id="s.002887">Torus è uno membrello
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                  ritondo, che uaſopra l'orlo, è detto in Greco ſtiuas: & ſi chiama Torus, perche è come una
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                  gonfiezza carnoſa, ouero come uno piumazzetto. </s>
                  <s id="s.002888">noi perche è ritondo lo chiamamo baſtone: &
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                  Franceſi, bozel, per la iſteſſa ragione. </s>
                  <s id="s.002889">Scocia è Greco, & ſignifica ombroſo, & oſcuro; per­
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                  che è un membro cauo, che fa ombra; però i noſtri lo chiamano cauetto. </s>
                  <s id="s.002890">altri ſcorza, perche è
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                  come la ſcorza di mezo baſtone: Franceſi chiamano il cauetto contrabozel. </s>
                  <s id="s.002891">Trochilus da Gre­
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                  ci, orbiculus, da latini è detto, perche aſſimiglia una rotella, che ſopra il taglio habbia un cana­
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                  le, come hanno i raggi delle taglie, ſopra liquali uanno le funi. </s>
                  <s id="s.002892">Quadra, & liſtella, & filette
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                  in Franceſe, che è la groſſezza d'alcuni membrelli, & è un pianuzzo & regola quadra di ſopra
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                  il cauetto, come è il ſopraciglio a gli Aſtragali. </s>
                  <s id="s.002893">Aſtragalus è coſi detto dalla forma di quell'oſ­
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                  ſo, che è nella giontura del collo del piede; latinamente è detto Talus; che uolgarmente ſi chia­
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                  ma talone, ma gli Architetti pure dalla forma il chiamano tondino, et nelle baſe ſe ne fanno due. </s>
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                  I diſegni di queſti membrelli, ſaranno qui ſotto, con le loro lettere, & nomi partitamente diße­
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                  gnati. </s>
                  <s id="s.002895">Noi poſcia poneremo tutti gli ordini diſtintamente prima, che ſi uenga al teſto di Vitru.
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                  accioche, con la imitatione del Filandro facciamo chiara tutta la preſente materia. </s>
                  <s id="s.002896">laquale ha
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                  biſogno di queſta ordinatione. </s>
                  <s id="s.002897">& ſatisfaremo anche a quelli, che non ſi curano di tanta Filoſofia,
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                  & che ci fanno oppoſitione di troppo alti concetti, & diſcorſi, con i quali io non uoglio ſcuſar­
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                  mi, perche dubiterei di non gli credere, et non di dare ad intendere a me ſteſſo che fuſſe uero, che
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                  o fuſſe piu Theorico, che pratico.
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                  A. Plinthus, Laterculus, uel lataſtrum. </s>
                  <s id="s.002899">Orlo.
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                  B. Thorus, ſtiuas. </s>
                  <s id="s.002901">rondbozel. </s>
                  <s id="s.002902">baſtone.
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                  C. Scotia, cauetto, ſcorza. </s>
                  <s id="s.002904">contrabozel. </s>
                  <s id="s.002905">orbiculus. </s>
                  <s id="s.002906">Trochilus.
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