Frasi di Marco Vitruvio Pollione
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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.”

Marco Vitruvio Pollione

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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

Marco Vitruvio Pollione: Frasi in inglese

“Hence, men that are born in the north are rendered over-timid and weak by fever, but their wealth of blood enables them to stand up against the sword without timidity.”

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

“Therefore it was the discovery of fire that originally gave rise to the coming together of men, to the deliberate assembly, and to social intercourse.”

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

“The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.”

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

“While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind.”

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

“On this principle of arrangement, the voice, uttered from the stage as from a centre, and spreading and striking against the cavities of the different vessels, as it comes in contact with them, will be increased in clearness of sound, and will wake an harmonious note in unison with itself.”

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

“For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.”

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

“Quoth he [ Alexander ] "…as a newborn babe cannot be nourished without the nurse's milk, nor conducted to the approaches that lead to growth in life, so a city cannot thrive without fields and the fruits thereof pouring into its walls."”

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Introduction, Sec. 3
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II

“nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.”

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

“Let him [who would be an architect] be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens.”

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

“Men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.”

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

“But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.”

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Introduction, Sec. 4
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II

“Eurythmy is beauty and fitness in the adjustments of the members. This is found when the members of a work are of a height suited to their breadth, of a breadth suited to their length, and, in a word, when they all correspond symmetrically.”

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

“the gravity of a substance depends not on the amount of its weight, but on its nature.”

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

“The cedar and the juniper tree have the same uses and good qualities… from the cedar is produced an oil called cedar oil. Books as well as other things smeared with this are not hurt by worms or decay. …the grain of the wood is straight. The statue of Diana in the temple at Ephesus is made of it, and so are the coffered ceilings both there and in all other famous fanes, because that wood is everlasting.”

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Origine: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 13

“The moon makes her circuit of the heaven in twenty-eight days plus about an hour, and with her return to the sign from which she set forth, completes a lunar month.”

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

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. …the beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

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

“The part which is nearest to the earth… is without knots and is "clear." But the upper part, on account of the great heat in it throws up branches into the air through the knots and this… is called "knotwood" because of its hardness and knottiness. The lowest part, after the tree is cut down and the sapwood of the same thrown away, is split up into four pieces and prepared for joiner's work, and so is called clearstock.”

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

“Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous.”

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Introduction, Sec. 4
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II

“At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.”

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

“There is nothing to which an architect should devote more thought than to the exact proportions of his building with reference to a certain part selected as the standard.”

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

“From these early beginnings, and from the fact that nature had… equipped their minds with the powers of thought and understanding, thus putting all other animals under their sway, they next gradually advanced from the construction of buildings to the other arts and sciences, and so passed from a rude and barbarous mode of life to civilization and refinement.”

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

“Copious springs are found where there are mines of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, and the like, but they are very harmful.”

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

“In all matters but particularly in architecture …that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. …One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions.”

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

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