Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              tantam hominis inconſtantiam, tam abſur­
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              das reprehenſiones, tam ſtultas interpreta­
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              tiones, tot præter propoſitum dicta, tantam
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              barbariem in nouo Cicerone animaduerti,
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              coactus ſum præter omnem conſuetudinem
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              meam ridere effuſiſſimè: neque enim conti­
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              nere me poteram, adeò vt id cùm aſſiduè fa­
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              cerem,
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              domeſticos meos
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              omnes admirari, ne exiſtimarent me inſani­
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              re, anagnoſtas ipſos legere iuſſi: qui tametſi
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              (vt ego) non adeò riderent, attamen maximè
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              admirabantur, præcipuè magnitudinem ope­
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              ris, barbariem & obliuionem. </s>
              <s id="s.014467">Inter reliqua
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              vt caput de Dæmonibus legerent imperaui,
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              in quo me reprehendit
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              fabulas nar­
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              rauerim, deinde ipſe longè plures ex menda­
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              ci Græcia omnibus notas, atque paterna,
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              longè abſurdiores annectit. </s>
              <s id="s.014468">Atque ita totus
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              liber huiuſmodi farina conſperſus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.014469">Quis
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              rogo poſſit continere riſum? </s>
              <s id="s.014470">aut quàm ma­
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              gis oportunè in hoc tempore poterat offerri?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.014471">Et potero ego hominem hunc odiſſe, quem
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              exiſtimo nectareum mihi poculum obtuliſſe?
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              <s id="s.014472">abſit Deinde me certum quaſi reddidit,
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              quàm parum profecturi ſint poſt obitum
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              meum, qui contra nos ſcribent, ſi quando
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              aliqui ſcripturi ſint: quando vir hic, qui
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              adeò contentè conſcripſit, quique nouem
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              fermè annos in hoc opere conſumpſit ad­
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              uerſus librum non abſolutum, non emen­
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              datum, tam parum profecerit, tam infeli­
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              cem exitum habuerit, cum nunc iam pri­
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              mùm abſolutus, demum etiam caſtigatus
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              in publicum proditurus ſit? </s>
              <s id="s.014473">An hoc par­
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              uum munus ſecuritas ex hoſte quæſita? </s>
              <s id="s.014474">Erat
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              & tertium non leuius his commodum, & in
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              quo multum ſperabam ſi affulſiſſet, ſcilicet
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              vt emendarem ex illo fi qua reprehenſione
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              digna inueniſſem: nam diſtuli hoc conſilio
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              editionem hanc vltimam, cùm iam eſſet
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              abſoluta caſtigatio, recepique librum ſuum,
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              Idibus Ianuarij 1558. liberalitate ipſius H.
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              P. ad quem libros excudendos denuò extre­
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              ma manu appoſita remittimus. </s>
              <s id="s.014475">Sed huic
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              quàm in hac parte, voto meo fraudatus
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              ſum, neque enim vel verbo fermè adiutus
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              ſum. </s>
              <s id="s.014476">Demiraberis forſan? </s>
              <s id="s.014477">& paradoxa exi­
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              ſtimabis, quæ non ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014478">Sed ſi intelligas, iam
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              fateberis & vera eſſe, & minimè præter fi­
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              dem. </s>
              <s id="s.014479">Primùm enim cùm tractatio ſua vni­
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              uerſa duas obtineat partes, additionem &
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              reprehenſionem, ex vtraque non parum iu­
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              uari ſperabam: at in vtroque deceptus dece­
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              ptus ſum: nam de additione, cùm neque
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              Ariſtotelem, neque Galenum neque nos
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              ſecutus ſit, qui vera à falſis, aliena à
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              noſtris diſtinguere ſolemus, farraginem in­
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              vtilem compoſuit. </s>
              <s id="s.014480">Si enim vera falſis miſ­
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              centur, audita expertis, aliena propriis, ne­
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              ceſſe eſt, vt nihil fide dignum ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.014481">Etenim etſi
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              in centum præceptis quatuor tantùm falſa
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              ſint, ſemper tamen timere debemus, ne
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              vnumquodque illud ſit, quòd falſum eſt.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.014482">Quamobrem
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              rem cuius cauſa maximè
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              laude, Dignus ſcilicet quòd nomina eorum,
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              à quibus accepi adiiciam, vt
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              qui legunt
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              quantum fidei adhibere debeant ſingulis
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              præceptis, & ne illi etiam propriis inuentio­
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              nibus fraudentur, homo hic generoſus vitu­
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              perat. </s>
              <s id="s.014483">In reprehenſionibus etiam parum pro­
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              fuit, quod & mathematica omnia, ſic vt
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              fermè primum librum, & multos alios ſicco
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              pede tranſeat, & naturalia pleraque relique­
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              rit, quoniam in illis ſuccum ſciebat poſſe
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              deprehendi, atque ita totum opus intactum
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              reliquit: nam hæc duo genera ſolùm ſunt
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              quæ experimento ſubiiciuntur: at ipſe cùm
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              deuitauerit experimenta, quantum potuit,
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              ne fucus deprehenderetur, totam reprehen­
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              ſionem vanam reddidit. </s>
              <s id="s.014484">Nam cætera quæ
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              adiiciuntur, & in quibus inſiſtit, non ad
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              ſubiectam rem quicquam pertinent, ſed
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              ſunt modi tradendi, in quibus etiam adeò
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              prolixus eſt, ac religioſus, vt fructum ex ea
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              lectione non capias, ni velis ei obſequi: nam
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              contradicendo ad rauim deuenies, at ſi obſe­
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              quaris, parendum erit illi, non lectoris vtili­
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              tati. </s>
              <s id="s.014485">Eſt enim ea in opinione, vt quemadmo­
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              dum in pueris inſtituendis ab ipſis elemen­
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              tis omnes ſectando quiſquilias, debeamus in
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              ſingulis quæſitis hærere. </s>
              <s id="s.014486">At non ita cenſet
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              Galenus, non ita proceſſit Hippocrates: ſcri­
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              bimus doctis, non imperitis, & nihil vulga­
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              re. </s>
              <s id="s.014487">Adde quod mirum eſt, in ipſa etiam
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              latinitate benedicentes, vt aberremus coge­
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              re vult, reprehendit enim noua exercita­
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              tione æſtuoſiſſimum his verbis: Atrociori­
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              bus ac penè tragicis verbis, minus ( vt opi­
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              nor ( vſitatè vocas æſtuoſiſſimum. </s>
              <s id="s.014488">Quæ ta­
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              men vox in eo proprio ſignificato à Colu­
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              mella, & Plinio vſurpatur. </s>
              <s id="s.014489">Verùm ſi quid
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              modò attigit, ad rem adeò infœliciter ceſſit
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              negotium, vt nihil in naturali Philoſophia,
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              ac Mathematicis ſani conſcripſerit, quini­
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              mò & abſurdiſſima, & experimento repu­
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              gnantia. </s>
              <s id="s.014490">Tertium quòd conſequi poſſe ſpe­
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              rauit, eſt vt eruditus in qualibet arte habe­
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              retur, quòd neque vt video ſucceſſurum il­
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              li eſt: nam ſi de experimentis, obſtat ratio
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              ſuperiùs dicta, quod vera à falſis non ſelegit.
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              <s id="s.014491">Si de artium peritia detrahas (quantum per
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              hoc opus licet ) medicinam, mathemati­
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              cam, & naturalem Philoſophiam, & vide
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              quid ei relinquatur. </s>
              <s id="s.014492">Id neque cauit, quòd
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              cùm duo propoſuiſſet, vt noſtra euerteret,
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              ſua oſtentaret: noſtra non rectè euertit, alia
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              quæ oſtentet omninò non habet. </s>
              <s id="s.014493">Vltimò
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              etiam ſperauit, vt fama æterna svborietur,
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              atque opus perpetuò maneret, quòd vt eue­
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              niat illi opto: verum melius forſan eſt, vt
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              cum ſcriptoribus animalium, vel Bibliothe­
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              cæ hiſtoriam conficientibus paciſcatur, &
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              exoret vt illum aliquo loco reponant. </s>
              <s id="s.014494">Acceſ­
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              ſit his tot incommodis & erratis, admirabile
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              quoddam dictu, & incredibile: ſcilicet quòd
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              non niſi paucis in locis ex tot, in quibus me
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              arguere conatur, intellexerit quid dixerim,
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              adeò mens eius contradicendi ſtudio flagrans
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              offuſcata eſt: nam diſſimulaſſe non credide­
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              rim, quòd illi non mihi dedecori palàm fu­
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              turum eſſet, & cum ſumma turpitudine con­
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              iunctum, arguere quod non intelligat, &
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              reprehendere quod non dicat. </s>
              <s id="s.014495">Huiuſmo­
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              di vnum exemplum, quinta exercitatione
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              proponam, quod ibi ter fallatur, atque
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              his lapſibus, quibus interpretando librum
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              eum, decipi conſpicuum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.014496">In vniuerſum
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              iniuriis certare, vt alienum à probo viro &
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              ſapiente, noſtriſque moribus eſt, ita non te­
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              gere qualis ſit hic calumniatur, & timidi </s>
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