Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                  la fronte. </s>
                  <s id="s.002435">Ma il piede, è la ſeſta parte dell'altezza del corpo, il cubito la quarta, il petto
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                  anche la quarta. </s>
                  <s id="s.002436">& in queſto modo anche gli altri membri hanno le loro conuenienti, &
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                  proportionate miſure: le quali da gli antichi pittori, & Statuarij ſono ſtate uſate, & pe
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                  rò hanno riportato grandi & infinite lodi. </s>
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                  La natura maeſtra ci inſegna come hauemo a reggercinel compartimento delle fabriche: impe
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                  roche non da altro ella uuole, che impariamo le ragioni delle ſimmetrie, che nelle fabri­
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                  che de i tempij uſar douemo, che dal ſacro tempio fatto ad imagine, & ſimiglianza di Dio,
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                  che è l'huomo, nella cui compoſitione tutte le altre merauiglie di natura ſono compreſe. </s>
                  <s id="s.002438">et pe­
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                  rò con ſaggio auuedimento tolſero gli antichi ogni ragione del miſurare dalle parti del corpo hu
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                  mano, doue molto a propoſito Vitruuio dice, che opera niuna può hauere ragione di componi
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                  mento, ſe prima non hauerà riguardo alla ſimmetria delle membra humane. </s>
                  <s id="s.002439">Io proponerò al­
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                  cune diſtintioni, accioche meglio s'intenda quello, che dice Vitr. </s>
                  <s id="s.002440">Di tre maniere s'intende mi­
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                  ſura. </s>
                  <s id="s.002441">Primieramente quando una coſa è piu perſetta, chele altre ſotto un'iſteſſo genere, quel
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                  la ſi dice miſura di perfettione. </s>
                  <s id="s.002442">in queſto modo l'huomo fra tutti gli animali eſſendo il piu perfet­
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                  to, ſi puo dire, che egli ſia miſura di tutti gli animali. </s>
                  <s id="s.002443">chiamaſi poi miſura d'agguaglianza,
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                  quando la miſura contiene la coſa miſurata a punto, come un'orna di uino, ſi chiama miſu­
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                  ra, perche tiene a punto tanto uino, quanto cape. </s>
                  <s id="s.002444">In ſomma poi chiamamo miſura quella quan­
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                  tità, che preſa piu fiate miſura il tutto, come dicemo la canna miſurare il panno. </s>
                  <s id="s.002445">Di queſta noi
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                  parlamo, queſta è quella, che è ſtata preſa dalla miſura della perfettione, che è l'huomo, tra gli ani
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                  mali, da gli antichi. </s>
                  <s id="s.002446">Onde miſurare non è altro, che far manifeſta una quantità prima non conoſciu
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                  ta, con una
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                  certa, et conoſciuta: et però
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                  dalle parti dell'huomo ſono ſtate piglia­
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                  te le miſure delle coſe, et le ragioni di quelle miſure: et è ragioneuole, che dalla teſta ſi pigli la mi
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                  ſura del tutto, eſſendo poſto nella teſta il ualore di tutti i ſentimenti humani, come coſa piu nobi
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                  le, et principale, et piu manifeſta. </s>
                  <s id="s.002447">Vitruuio uuole, che l'huomo ſia di dieci teste, ſe per teſta
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                  egli s'intende dal mento al naſcimento de i capelli: et uuole anche, che ſia di otto teſte, ſe per
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                  teſta egli s'intende lo ſpacio, che è dal mento al ſommità del capo. </s>
                  <s id="s.002448">Gli antichi oltra la propor
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                  tione attendeuano alla gratia per ſatisfare allo aſpetto, et però faceuano i corpi alquanto gran
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                  di, le teſte picciole, la coſcia lunga: nel che era poſto la ſueltezza: parlo hora de i corpi perfet
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                  ti: perche altra miſura conuiene ad un corpo puerile, altra ad un corpo aſciutto, o graſſo, o te­
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                  nue, che ſi uoglia ſignere. </s>
                  <s id="s.002449">Amauano gli antichi ſtando nelle miſure conuenienti, la lunghezza,
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                  et la ſottigliezza di alcune parti: parendo loro di dare non ſo che piu di leggiadro alle opere. </s>
                  <s id="s.002450">et
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                  però ſe bene dalla raſcetta, che è la piegatura della mano, alla ſommità del dito di mezo uole­
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                  uano, che tanto fuſſe dal mento alla ſommità della fronte, nientedimeno per la detta cagione
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                  faceuano la mano, et le dita alquanto piu lunghe. </s>
                  <s id="s.002451">il Filandro auuertiſce, et bene, che non
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                  puo ſtare quello, che dice Vitruuio, che il petto ſia la quarta parte; et uuole, che quando
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                  Vitruuio d ce, che il cubito ſia la quarta parte, egli intenda non dalla giuntura del comito alla
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                  raſcetta, ma dalla giuntura del comito alla ſommità del dito di mezo. </s>
                  <s id="s.002452">Vuole Pomponio Gau
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                  rico, che la giuſta altezza ſia di noue teste. </s>
                  <s id="s.002453">altri alquanto piu. </s>
                  <s id="s.002454">Il Cardano nel libro della
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                  ſottilità dice. </s>
                  <s id="s.002455">Queſta eſſer la forma del corpo humano perfetto. </s>
                  <s id="s.002456">la faccia è la decima di tutta la
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                  lunghezza dal naſcimento de i capelli all eſtremo del pollice del piede. </s>
                  <s id="s.002457">la faccia ſi diuide in
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                  tre parti eguagli, l'una ſi fa dalla radice de i capelli alla ſommità del naſo: l'altra è la lun­
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                  ghezza del naſo: la terza è dal fine del naſo al mento. </s>
                  <s id="s.002458">la lunghezza della bocca è eguale alla
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                  lunghezza dell'occhio, et la lunghezza dell'occhio è quanto lo ſpacio da un'occhio all'altro:
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                  di modo, che in tre parti ſi diuida lo ſpacio, che è dall'uno angulo dell'occhio allo angulo dell'al
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                  tro, cioè due occhi, et lo ſpacio, che ui è di mezo: et tutto queſto è doppio alla lunghezza del
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                  naſo. </s>
                  <s id="s.002459">di modo che la lunghenza dell'occhio, et l'apritura della bocca ſia doppia alla nona par
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                  te della lunghezza della faccia, et per queſto adimene, che la lunghezza del naſo ſia ſeſquial­
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                  tera all'apritura della bocca, et alla lunghezza dell'occhio. </s>
                  <s id="s.002460">laqual lunghezza del naſo eſſen
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