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Marco Vitruvio Pollione è stato un architetto e scrittore romano, attivo nella seconda metà del I secolo a.C., considerato il più famoso teorico dell'architettura di tutti i tempi. Wikipedia  

✵ 80 a.C. – 15 a.C.
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“Decor è il bell'apparire di un'opera priva di difetti, le cui parti rispondono a un calcolo preciso, e questo lo si ottiene rispettando la consuetudine o la natura.”

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“Archimede ha fatto una quantità di scoperte straordinarie ed eccezionalmente geniali. Fra esse voglio parlare soprattutto di una che porta i segni di una grande intelligenza. Quando Gerone regnava in Siracusa, per le sue fortunate imprese volle offrire ad un certo santuario una corona d'oro che aveva ammirato. Decise il prezzo dell'opera con un artista e gli consegnò la quantità di oro necessaria. A suo tempo la corona finita fu consegnata, con piena soddisfazione del re, ed anche il peso della corona risultò coincidere con quello dell'oro. Più tardi, però, Cerone ebbe motivo di sospettare che l'artista avesse sottratto una parte dell'oro e l'avesse sostituita con un ugual peso di argento. Indignato per l'inganno, ma non riuscendo a trovare il modo di dimostrarlo, pregò Archimede di studiare la questione. Un giorno che, tutto preso da questo pensiero, Archimede era entrato in un bagno, si accorse che mano a mano che il suo corpo si immergeva, l'acqua traboccava. Questa osservazione gli diede la soluzione del problema. Si slanciò fuori dal bagno e tutto emozionato si precipitò nudo verso casa, gridando con tutte le forze che aveva trovato quel che cercava: "Eureka! Eureka!"”

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“L'Architettura è una scienza, che è adornata di molte cognizioni, e colla quale si regolano tutti i lavori, che si fanno in ogni arte.  ”

Marco Vitruvio Pollione

“La scienza dell'architetto si adorna di molte discipline e di svariata erudizione: egli deve essere in grado di giudicare tutte quelle opere che le singole arti costruiscono.”

Marco Vitruvio Pollione

Origine: Da Architettura, I,1,1, traduzione di S. Ferri, Palombi, Roma, 1960. Citato in Bruno Gentili, Luciano Stupazzini, Manlio Simonetti, Antologia della letteratura latina, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1989, p. 499.

“Si narra parimenti, essersi anticamente acceso il fuoco sotto il Vesuvio, e bollendo essersi versato inondando le vicine campagne: onde quella pietra che si chiama ora spugna, o sia pomice Pompeiana, pare che sia stata un'altra sorta di pietra ridotta poi dal fuoco a questa qualità.”

Marco Vitruvio Pollione libro De architectura

De architectura, II, cap. VI, traduzione di Berardo Galiani

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“The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter II, Sec. 9

“Every hot spring has healing properties because it has been boiled with foreign substances, and thus acquires a new useful quality.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VII, Chapter III, Sec. 4

“Order gives due measure to the members of a work considered separately, and symmetrical agreement to the proportions of the whole. It is an adjustment according to quantity. By this I mean the selection of modules from the members of the work itself and, starting from these individual parts of members, constructing the whole work to correspond.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter II, Sec. 2

“An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 4

“I have therefore thought that it would be a worthy and very useful thing to reduce the whole of this great art to a complete and orderly form of presentation, and then in different books to lay down and explain the required characteristics of different departments.”

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Introduction, Sec. 1
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IV

“When different and unlike things have been subjected to the action of fire and thus reduced to the same condition, if after this, while in a warm, dry state, they are suddenly saturated with water, there is an effervescence of the heat latent in the bodies of them all, and this makes them firmly unite and quickly assume the property of one solid mass.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VI, Sec. 4

“From astronomy we find the east, west, south, and north, as well as the theory of the heavens, the equinox, solstice, and courses of the stars. If one has no knowledge of these matters, he will not be able to have any comprehension of the theory of sundials.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 10

“But basilicas of the greatest dignity and beauty may also be constructed in the style of that one which I erected, and the building of which I superintended at Fano.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book V, Chapter I, Sec. 6

“And so, as they kept coming together in greater numbers into one place, finding themselves naturally gifted beyond the other animals in not being obliged to walk with faces to the ground, but upright and gazing upon the splendor of the starry firmament, and also in being able to do with ease whatever they chose with their hands and fingers, they began in that first assembly to construct shelters. Some made them of green boughs, others dug caves on mountain sides, and some, in imitation of the nests of swallows and the way they built, made places of refuge out of mud and twigs. Next, by observing the shelters of others and adding new details to their own inceptions they constructed better and better kinds of huts as time went on.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter I, Sec. 2

“Then, too, the columns at the corners should be made thicker than the others by a fiftieth of their own diameter, because they are sharply outlined by the unobstructed air around them, and seem to the beholder more slender than they are.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book III, Chapter III, Sec. 11

“In the same manner the voice executes its movements in concentric circles; but while in the case of water the circles move horizontally on a plane surface, the voice not only proceeds horizontally, but also ascends vertically by regular stages. Therefore, as in the case of the waves formed in the water, so it is in the case of the voice: the first wave, when there is no obstruction to interrupt it, does not break up the second or the following waves, but they all reach the ears of the lowest and highest spectators without an echo.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book V, Chapter IV, Sec. 7

“To find the directions and quarters of the winds your method of procedure should be as follows. In the middle of the city place a marble amussium, laying it true by the level, or else let the spot be made so true by means of rule and level that no amussium is necessary. In the very center of that spot set up a bronze gnomon or "shadow tracker." At about the fifth hour in the morning, take the end of the shadow cast by this gnomon, and mark it with a point. Then, opening your compasses to this point which marks the length of the gnomon's shadow, describe a circle from the center. In the afternoon watch the shadow of your gnomon as it lengthens, and when it once more touches the circumference of this circle and the shadow in the afternoon is equal in length to that of the morning, mark it with a point. From these two points describe with your compasses intersecting arcs and through their intersection and the centre let a line be drawn to the circumference of the circle to give us the quarters of south and north…. and thus we have designed a figure equally apportioned among the eight winds.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 5-7

“Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.”

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Introduction, Sec. 14
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“Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 8

“Geometry… is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics… the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. …Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 4

“Even peasants wholly without knowledge of the quarters of the sky believe that oxen ought to face only in the direction of the sunrise.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VI, Chapter VI, Sec. 1

“Ceres also should be outside the city in a place to which people need never go except for the purpose of sacrifice.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VII, Sec. 2

“These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principal of the pseudodipteral octastyle.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book III, Chapter III, Sec. 8

“There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as at Tarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VII, Chapter III, Sec. 24

“With regard to burnt brick… If not made of good clay or if not baked sufficiently, it shows itself defective… when exposed to frosts and rime. Brick that will not stand exposure on roofs can never be strong enough to carry its load in a wall. Hence the strongest burnt brick walls are those which are constructed out of old roofing tiles.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 19

“Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IV, Chapter IX, Sec. 1

“While in Campania the burning of the earth makes ashes, in Tuscany the combustion of the stone makes carbuncular sand. Both are excellent in walls but one is better to use for buildings on land, the other for piers under salt water.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VI, Sec. 6

“Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VII, Chapter III, Sec. 17

“Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book X, Chapter VII, Sec. 1

“Then again, in the human body the central point is naturally the navel. For if a man be placed flat on his back, with his hands and feet extended, and a pair of compasses centered at his navel, the fingers and toes of his two hands and feet will touch the circumference of a circle described therefrom.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book III, Chapter I, Sec. 3

“The Phrygians… select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter I, Sec. 5

“When it appears that a work has been carried out sumptuously, the owner will be the person to be praised for the great outlay which ha has authorized; when delicately, the master workmen will be approved for his execution; but when proportions and symmetry lend it an imposing effect, then the glory of it will belong to the architect.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VI, Chapter VIII, Sec. 9

“In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book V, Chapter V, Sec. 1

“Hence the ancient architects, following in the footsteps of nature, perfected the ascending rows of seats in theatres from their investigations of the ascending voice, and by means of the canonical theory of the mathematicians and that of the musicians, endeavoured to make every voice uttered on the stage come with greater clearness and sweetness to the ears of the audience. For just as musical instruments are brought to perfection of clearness in the sound of their strings by means of bronze plates or horn, so the ancients devised methods of increasing the power of the voice in theatres through the application of harmonics.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book V, Chapter IV, Sec. 8

“The architect should also have a knowledge of the study of medicine on account of the questions of climates, air, the healthiness and unhealthiness of sites, and the use of different waters. For without these considerations the healthiness of a dwelling cannot be assured.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 10

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