Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                  to, ſi nelle coſe immobili, come in quelle, che ſi moueno.
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                  <s id="s.000743">Il compartimento, & riſpondenza delle miſure detto ſimmetria, è conueneuole con
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                  ſentimento da i membri dell'opera, & dalle parti ſeparate alla forma di tutta la figura, ſe
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                  condo la rata portione come ſi uede nel corpo humano, il quale con il cubito, co'l pie­
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                  de, col palmo, col dito, & con le altre parti è commiſurato, coſi adiuiene nelle per­
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                  fettioni dell'opere. </s>
                  <s id="s.000744">Et prima ne i ſacri tempij dalle groſſezze delle colonne, ouero
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                  dal Triglifo. poi nel forame della baliſta quella coſa, che ui entra, detta Peritriton. </s>
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                  Simigliantemente nelle naui dallo ſpacio, che è tra un ſchelmo all'altro, che per eſſer di
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                  miſura di due cubiti, ſi chiama, dipichaichi, & coſi nelle altre opere da i membri lo
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                  ro ſi troua la ragione delle ſimmetrie, & de i compartimenti. </s>
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                  La ſimmetria è la bellezza dell'ordine, come è la Eurithmia la bellezza della diſpoſi­
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                  tione. </s>
                  <s id="s.000747">Non è a baſtanza ordinare le miſure una dopo l'altra, ma neceſſario è, che quelle miſu­
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                  re habbiano conuenienza tra ſe, cioè ſiano in qualche proportione; & però doue ſarà propor
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                  tione, iui non puo eſſere coſa ſuperflua. </s>
                  <s id="s.000748">& ſi come il maeſtro della natural proportione, è lo inſtin
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                  to della natura, coſi il maeſtro dell'Artificiale è l'habito dell'Arte: d'onde ne naſce, che la pro­
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                  portione è propria della forma, & non della materia: & doue non ſono parti, non può eſſere pro­
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                  portione: perche eſſa naſce dalle parti compoſte, & dalla relatione di eſſe, & in ogni rela­
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                  tione è neceßario almeno, che ſiano due termini, come s'è detto: ne ſi può lodare a ba­
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                  ſtanza lo effetto della proportione, nella quale è poſta la gloria dello Architetto, la bellez­
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                  za dell'opera, la merauiglia dello artificio. </s>
                  <s id="s.000749">come ſi uederà chiaramente quando noi ragio­
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                  naremo delle proportioni, & apriremo i ſecreti di queſt'Arte, dimoſtrando qual riſpetto è
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                  nella proportione, quali termini, qual uſo, & quanti effetti, & di che forza ella faccia parere
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                  le coſe: però mi riporto al ſuo luogo. </s>
                  <s id="s.000750">Vitruuio fin tanto dà lo eſſempio di quello, che egli ha det­
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                  to
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                  Secondo la rata portione,
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                  dicendo.
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                  Come ſi uede nel corpo humano.
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                  Hauendo
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                  Hercole miſurato il corſo, & lo ſpacio di Piſa, & trouatolo di piedi ſeicento de i ſuoi, & eſſen­
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                  doſi poi nelle altre parti della Grecia fatti quegli ſpacij da correre di piedi ſeicento, ma piu breui. </s>
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                  il buon Pithagora comparando quelli corſi l'uno con l'altro, ritrouò il piede di Hercole eſſere
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                  ſtato maggiore de i piedi, con i quali i Greci haueuano miſurato gli altri ſpacij. </s>
                  <s id="s.000752">& ſapendo qua­
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                  le doueua eſſer la proportione del piede alla giuſta grandezza dell'huomo, compreſe la ſtatura di
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                  Hercole eſſere ſtata tanto maggiore della ſtatura de gli altri huomini, quanto il corſo miſurato da
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                  Hercole eccedeua gli altri corſi della Grecia. </s>
                  <s id="s.000753">Quando adunque le miſure ſeranno accommoda­
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                  te alle maniere, non ha dubbio, che dalla grandezza d'una parte non ſi conoſca la miſura del­
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                  l'altra, & conſeguentemente la grandezza del tutto.
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                  Et prima ne i ſacri tempij.
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                  Queſto
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                  ho dichiarito di ſopra, che dalla groſſezza delle colonne, che ci daua il modulo, ſi pigliauano gli
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                  ſpacij tra le colonne, & le altezze di quelle.
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                  Ouero dal Triglipho.
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                  queſto è un membrello,
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                  che ha tre canellature come canali, donde prende il nome, & ſi mette ſopra l'Architraue nelle
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                  opere Doriche, dal quale ſi miſura l'opera Dorica, ſi come al terzo capo del quarto libro ci ſa­
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                  rà dichiarito.
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                  Poi nel foro della Baliſta.
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                  Nella Baliſta, che è inſtrumento da trarre, egli
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                  ſi fa i fori dalle teſte, ne i quali entra il capo della corda. </s>
                  <s id="s.000754">i fori ſi cauano dal peſo della pietra: &
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                  da i fori ſi caua la miſura di quello, che Vitr. chiama ſcutula. </s>
                  <s id="s.000755">nel decimo al cap. XVII. & qui
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                  Peritriton. </s>
                  <s id="s.000756">come dalla palla ſi piglia la miſura del pezzo dell'artigliaria,
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                  ſimigliantemente
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                  nelle naui, da gli ſchelmi, cioè dallo ſpacio, che è tra il ligamento d'un remo & l'altro, ſi piglia
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                  quella miſura, che regola tutto il corpo della galera,
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                  coſi trouo che ſi oſſerua nel fabricar le
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                  galere, & per queſto io ho eſpoſto Vitruuio in queſto modo. </s>
                  <s id="s.000757">ma ſeguitiamo.
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                  <s id="s.000758">Decoro è aſpetto ſenza menda dell'opera prouato per le coſe compoſte con autorità. </s>
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                  Io eſponerò decoro per le coſe che ſegueno, ma in uero Vitr. lo abbraccia ſotto nome di orna­
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                  mento, quando egli dice,
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                  aſpetto ſenza menda,
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                  benche nella ſeconda parte ſi tegna al
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                  decoro, quando dice,
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                  prouato per le coſe compoſte con autorità.
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                  & lo eſſempio di Vitru.
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