Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                  piu duri. </s>
                  <s id="s.002056">Gli acuti, & tardiui tra i fruttuoſi piu forti. </s>
                  <s id="s.002057">De i dolci piu creſceno gli ſterili, che i
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                  fertili. </s>
                  <s id="s.002058">Piu nodoſi gli sterili del tutto, o quelli, che a uicenda fruttano, che i feraci. </s>
                  <s id="s.002059">Tra i no­
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                  doſi i corti ſono piu difficili. </s>
                  <s id="s.002060">Sono piu nodoſi quelli, che nodriti ſono in conualli, & piu corti de i
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                  montani. </s>
                  <s id="s.002061">Ma i montani piu fermi, & piu groſſi. </s>
                  <s id="s.002062">Sono piu molli i naſciuti in luoghi humidi, &
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                  ombroſi de gli aprichi. </s>
                  <s id="s.002063">I legni di color bianco ſono manco denſi, & piu trattabili. </s>
                  <s id="s.002064">Ogni ma­
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                  teria ponderoſa della liggiera, è piu ſpeſſa, & piu dura, & quella è piu fragile. </s>
                  <s id="s.002065">finalmente quel­
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                  li, che piu ſi conſeruano in uita, durano anche tagliati piu lungamente de gli altri. </s>
                  <s id="s.002066">Hora quan­
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                  to alla comparatione delle parti, che quanto meno ui è di midolla tanto piu ui è di fortezza: Le
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                  parti piu uicine alla midolla ſono piu forti, & le piu uicine alla ſcorza, ſono piu tenaci, & la
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                  peggiore è l'Alburno. </s>
                  <s id="s.002067">Le piu uicine alla terra ſono piu ponderoſe, le di mezo ſono piu creſpe, le
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                  interiori piu commode, le eſpoſte al mezo di piu ſecche, & ſottili, & hanno la midolla piu ui­
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                  cina al cortice. </s>
                  <s id="s.002068">In fine molte coſe reſtarebbeno a dire, ma queſte uoglio che ſiano a bastanza. </s>
                  <s id="s.002069">Il
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                  reſto ſi troua raccolto con grandiſſima diligenza da Leon Battiſta. nel ſecondo libro, & di Pli­
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                  nio nel ſeſto decimo, & in Theofraſto. </s>
                  <s id="s.002070">Ma quello che è degno in Vitru. di auuertimento, è la
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                  doue egli dice dello Abete, Quadrifluuijs diſparatur: non che Vitr. non habbia bene interpretato.
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                  <s id="s.002071">& ſimilmente Plinio quando dice, Quæ habeant quadripartitos uenarum curſus, bifidos autem
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                  omnino ſimplices. </s>
                  <s id="s.002072">ma perche Theofraſto dice dizous, monozous, tetrazous. </s>
                  <s id="s.002073">Parole tradotte
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                  da Theodoro Gaza, Quadriuiuas, biniuiuas, & uniuiuas: come dice Hermolao Barbaro. </s>
                  <s id="s.002074">lequa­
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                  li parole, & nel Greco, & nel Latino non danno bene ad'intendere quello, che è in fatto. </s>
                  <s id="s.002075">dico di
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                  Theofraſto, & di Theodoro, ſe forſe Theofraſto non uuole dire monorous, & dirous, & tetra­
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                  rous; il che non ardirei di porre; perche egli ſi uede alcuni Abeti tagliati a trauerſo hauere un
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                  corſo di uene, che uanno per un uerſo, & alcuni hauerne due, che uno caualca l'altro, come ſe
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                  le dita d'una mano attrauerſaſſero le dita dell'altra; & alcuni hauerne quattro poſti in modi di
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                  craticula o di rete; come chi poneſſe le dita d'una mano attrauerſate ſopra le dita dell'altra, &
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                  ſopra quelle anche altre, fin' a quattr'ordini. </s>
                  <s id="s.002076">Egli ſi ha oſſeruato, che lo Abete creſcendo d'an­
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                  no in anno, ne i primi anni accreſce il numero delle uene, & da un ſimplice ordine di uene, che di­
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                  moſtra il primo anno ne fa un'altro attrauerſato ſopra quelle il ſeguente anno, & coſi moltiplica
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                  fino al quarto anno: & queſta credo ſia l'intelligenza de gli allegati auttori.
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                  Dello abete ſopernate, & internate con la deſcrittione
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                  dell'Apennino. </s>
                  <s id="s.002078">Cap. X.
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                  <s id="s.002079">NASCENO le prime radici del monte Apennino dal mar Tirreno in fino
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                  all'Alpi, & all'eſtreme parti di Toſcana; ma il giogo di quel monte giran
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                  doſi, & con meza uolta appreſſand oſi alle riue del mar Adriano, peruiene
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                  con i ſuoi giri uerſo il mare, la onde la ſua piegatura di qua, che riguarda
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                  alle parti di Toſcana, & di Campagna, è molto aprica, & fiorita, perche del conti­
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                  nuo prende uigore dal corſo del Sole. </s>
                  <s id="s.002080">ma la parte di là, & che uolta al mar di ſopra
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                  ſottogiace al Settentrione, è perpetuamente & foſca, & ombroſa. </s>
                  <s id="s.002081">doue gli alberi, che
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                  ſono in quella patte eſſendo nodriti di uirtu humida, non ſolo creſcono in iſmiſurata
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                  grandezza: ma anche le lor uene pregnanti di grande humidità tumide, & gonfie ſi ſatiano
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                  dell'abondanza del liquore: ma poi quando tagliate, & iſpianate hanno perduto il uigo
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                  re naturale cangiando col ſeccarſi il rigore delle uene diuentano per la loro rarità uote
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                  & iſuanite: & per queſta ragione non hanno ne gli edificij da durare. </s>
                  <s id="s.002082">Ma quelli che in
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                  luoghi eſpoſti al Sole ſono generati, non hauendo al cuna rarità tra le uene loro aſciut
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                  te dal ſecco ſi fanno piu ferme, perche il Sole non ſolamente dalla terra aſciugando,
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                  ma anche da gli alberi caua l'humore. </s>
                  <s id="s.002083">& però quegli, che ſono in parte eſpoſta al Sole </s>
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