Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem, 1567

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              rerum obſeruatione ante concepta, exemplar fit eius formæ, quæ exte-
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              riorem materiem, quàm ſimillime poteſt, effingit? </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s51" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi artifex
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              tam excellens opus parare poſſet, ut id eum cognoſceret, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s52" xml:space="preserve">amaret, pla-
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              nè hoc faceret, opus autem nulla alia ratione opifcem ſuum agnoſceret,
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              niſi ex èa ſimilitudine, quam prius ab exemplari habuiſſet. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s53" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi adeo
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              hebeti, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s54" xml:space="preserve">obtuſa eſſet intelligentia, ut ſe ſe efferre, atque euehere ad co-
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              gnoſcendum opificem minime poſſet, neceſſarium eſſet, ut exemplar ip-
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              ſum eò ſe demitteret, ut ab opere percipi, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s55" xml:space="preserve">cognoſci poßet. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s56" xml:space="preserve">Hinc quam
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              reconditi cognitionis theſauri recludantur, ex te uidere potes. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s57" xml:space="preserve">Cum
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              æterna mens, æternam artem concipiens, in rebus a ſe conditis, ueſti-
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              gium, uelimaginem ſuam impreſſerit, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s58" xml:space="preserve">ut melius perciperetur, & </s>
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              amaretur, uiſibilem, atque aſpectabilem ſe præbuit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s60" xml:space="preserve">Ecce quò nos
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              egreſſus artis euexit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s61" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi perfectum opus ſpeculari uoluerimus, ad-
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              mir andum ſane uiuendi or dinem intuebimur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s62" xml:space="preserve">Sentio iam, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s63" xml:space="preserve">quaſi
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              oculis cerno acumen ingenij tui uſque ad cœlos penetrare, ac diuinæ cu-
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              iuſdam rei notionem concipere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s64" xml:space="preserve">Omnis enim artifex, quantum ani-
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              mo, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s65" xml:space="preserve">labore niti poteſt, pulchrum, utile, ac firmum opus ſuum efficere
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              conatur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s66" xml:space="preserve">cum hæc in opere ineſſe ſenſerit, mirum eſt quàm carum,
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              quàm gratum, quàm iucundum illud habet, nam ex pulchritudine
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              ſcientiam, ex utilitate probitatem, ex firmitate uirtutem ſuam cogno-
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              ſci poſſe ſper at. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s67" xml:space="preserve">quæ omnia in recta uiuendi ratione requiruntur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s68" xml:space="preserve">in
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              diuinitatis cognitionem nos ducunt. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s69" xml:space="preserve">Demum ſi fructum artis atten-
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              damus, profectò conſider abimus artificem quemlibet opus aliquod fa-
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              cere, uel ut ex eo la
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              udem ferat, uel ut ſibi aliquid emolumenti paret,
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              uelut in eo oblectetur, unde tria illa rerum appetendarum genera ha-
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              bentur, honeſtas, utilitas, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s70" xml:space="preserve">uoluptas: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s71" xml:space="preserve">quæ cum ita eſſe ex diuini lumi-
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              nis illuſtratione ſentiamus, nos qui pr æſtantiſsimum Dei opus ſumus, co-
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              gitabimus nos à Deo proptere a factos eſſe, ut ipſum laudemus, illi ſer-
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              uiamus, in eo conquieſcamus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s72" xml:space="preserve">Hac ſpeculatione fit, ut ſagax, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s73" xml:space="preserve">no-
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              bilis natur a hominum artium cognitione ornata, uberiores in dies fru-
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              ctus fer at, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s74" xml:space="preserve">ingentem ( artificum tamen uulgo ignotam mercedem ) la-
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              borum ſuorum percipiat, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s75" xml:space="preserve">eos longe à uero aberrare cognoſcat, qui
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              nobiles, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s76" xml:space="preserve">in dignitate conſtitutos uiros ab artium oblectatione arcere
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              uolunt, Illuſtrium animarum pr æſtantiam ing eniorum ſuorum imbecil-
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              litate metientes. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s77" xml:space="preserve">Quos ut ualere ſinamus, age doctiſsime, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s78" xml:space="preserve">ornatiſ-
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              ſime Præſul ueteris meæ in te obſeruantiæ monimentum accipe, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s79" xml:space="preserve">com-
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              ment arios meos in M. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s80" xml:space="preserve">V itruuij Architectur am editos, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s81" xml:space="preserve">tutelæ tuæ
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              commendatos amplectere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s82" xml:space="preserve">In quibus ſi quid erit, quod alijs prodeſſe </s>
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