Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	city_n	great_a	lord_n	2,295	5	3.5103	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11048	The courtiers academie comprehending seuen seuerall dayes discourses: wherein be discussed, seuen noble and important arguments, worthy by all gentlemen to be perused. 1 Of beautie. 2 Of humane loue. 3 Of honour. 4 Of combate and single fight. 5 Of nobilitie. 6 Of riches. 7 Of precedence of letters or armes originally written in Italian by Count Haniball Romei, a gentleman of Ferrara, and translated into English by I.K.; Discorsi. English	Romei, Annibale, conte, 16th cent.; Keper, John, b. 1546 or 7, attributed name.; I. K.	1598 (1598)	STC 21311; ESTC S116155	207,844	304

rather maketh nobility the more to shine and be resplendant in that the stipend of a Prince who representeth the Common-wealth is a publike stipend noteth vertue in him noble that hee either hath or is fitte to perform some benefit to the prince or common-wealth But Count Hercole Tassone who sate by him said I would willingly vnderstand if to practise marchandise wer any obstacle of Nobility Ferif that should be true the Venetian Nobility so highly esteemed of wold be nothing worth in that there be seldome any of their nobles which are not also marchants they being of opinion that Nobility can hardly bee preserued without marchandise being the meane to hold augment wealth And I haue and do know some princes that are giuen to trade of marchandise and yet amongst others noble those princes are most noble and Varano Although the Philosopher affirmeth that the life of marchants is base and contrary to vertue as also the Thebanes made a law that none might be capable of honors in the commonwealth except they had giuen ouer trade for the space of ten yeares before notwithstanding I make this distinction For marchandise may be practised two manner of waies the one by causing to be brought out of farre countries those commodities which are not in their own to their owne gaine and for benefit also of the common-wealth the other by not respecting publike benefit but onely to enrich himselfe buyeth vp the commodity of his owne country whereof there is aboundance expecting occasion to sell them againe at a greater price and this being grounded Vpon auarice and a sordide gaine as it is from vertue farre remote so dooth not that other blemish at al Nobility especially if it be practised with Decorum And howe may it be practised with Decorum added Tassone He noble in vsing trade shall obserus Decorum sayd Varano if for all this he giue not ouer liberal artes but shall vse the other by the hand of his agents not sell his commoditie by retale setting forth shoppes with it but vtter it in grosle and for a reasonable price hauing euer his eie no lesse to publike benefit then vnto priuate gaine with this Decorum the Venetian Nobilitie practise it For they noble not forsaking profession and arts liberall as also not neglecting affaires and publike magistracies procure with their ships commodities to be transported out of other countries for which cause they maintain their factors selling altogither in grosse helping by this meanes not onely their country but also many other neighbor prouinces therfore in this maner preseruing and increasing wealth they do no whit infringe their nobilitie Those Signiors Vndoubtedlie are noble added Tassone for besides their being most opulent both in publike priuate lords of so miraculous great a city as is Venice most mighty also by land sea they may further be esteemed the only nobles of Italy Nobilitie in their ancient families hauing neuer bin defaced the original wherof is reckoned from nine hundred yeares by the Barbarous nations the which by their Cities of Italie cannot be affirmed wherin some of the nobles vaunt themselues to come out of Germanie others out of France many out of Spaine But to returne to our purpose seeing he noble may traffick I wold also vnderstand if without touch of nobility he may heape vp treasure or no for of this I doubt especially hauing read that amongst the Romanes it was highly commended neither to deminish nor augment a patrimony that generous people imagining that it was a hard matter to accumulate gold treasure without vice To gather wealth answered Varano is in the number of those actions which of themselues are termed neither good nor bad but by the circumstaÌ„ces mean end wherfore they are performed they become either good or depraued it shal be lawful therfore for him noble to store vp wealth so often as in this he obserue a mediocrity do it to good honest end this mean may by him be kept if considering himself his wealth he liue with that decorum which for his nobility faculty shal be conuenieÌ„t endeuoring that euery yeare of his reuenues there may rather auance theÌ„ come short to the end that by sinister occasion of fortune he fal not into some distresse for ther is not a greter indignity nor any thing that more preiudiceth nobility then for one noble throgh waÌ„t to go led as we commouly say by another mans hand as on the contrary there is not any point that giueth greater reputation or that nearer appeareth to magnanimity theÌ„ not to be in want or necessity of any thing The end shal be honest in gathering wealth for our childreÌ„ which is also by the EuaÌ„gelical law permitted as likewise to be mindful of our frieÌ„ds that we may honor succor our cuntry in hir necessities a thing which the VenetiaÌ„ nobility is wont to perform who bring into the coÌ„mon treasury the particular treasures heaped vp by industrie and frugalitie offering it with their singular reputation to the seruice of their countrie and therefore by fooles who respect no further then a certaine vaine exterior apparance this their frugalitie is fondly taxed as those who in apparrell and diet consume not their wealth where vppon they call the nobles of Venice miserable and couetous althogh notwithstanding throughout their whole cittie they may see manifest signes of their magnificence but if we vse by the house to measure not only the condition and state but also the minde of the patrone that for his own vse hath built it what is he who beholding the stately magnificent pallaces consecrated to eternitie which the Venetian nobilitie for themselues and publike ornament questionlesse with heroycall charge do build and may not perceiue in theÌ„ a minde more then great or will not terme them vndoubtedly most worthy by the titles of magnificent and excellent and let not theÌ„ scoffe at that nobilitie who with notable vanity are to no other thing addicted theÌ„ the excesse of pompous attire sumptuous fare who being coÌ„tinually folowed by Parasites Sicophants with shame losse to theÌ„selues their childreÌ„ vtter their wealth downwarde in the priuies The honest frugalitie and moderate liuing of the vertuous said Tassone is rather to be attributed to those excellent lawes good customes wherewith that most prudeÌ„t commonwealth is gouerned theÌ„ to the vertu of particular men for diet by the laws is moderated and sumtuous apparrel as wel in women as men forbidden for the magistracie of Censors which is a place of great dignitie in the common-wealth is principally intentiue about this seuerely chastising those who contemning the laws exceed the meane set down in their apparrel diet or other supersluities This law added Varano is of so great importance that by it principally the commonwealth flourisheth and is maintained for richesse by this meanes is not onely preserued the props of Nobilitie but also

the same maner as Phydias was said to be wise and excellent which was only in the art of Grauing he spoke well In like maner he is deceiued if he beleeue that the man valorous accompanied with vices may of himselfe bee founder of Nobilitie and I say of himselfe in that by accident he is not forbidden such an one leauing riches power to his posterity by meane of which they may with honor exercise vertue and liberal Arts. Your opinion said Brancaccio is conformable to my humour and grounded vpon preualent reasons For if by nobilitie wee suppose an inclination vnto vertue in him noble it beeing likely that from the better better still springs if he first had beene wicked both supposition and proposition would be false For from one not good another good should take his originall but according to my obseruation this worde valor seemeth properly to be vsurped in those vses appertaining to warre so that when we say he is valorous or of valour presently we vnderstand it in Armes Arte Military answered Varano as it hath euer beene of all others the most noble and honorable so those who make profession of bearing armes notwithstanding for the most parte they be menquellers and most wicked vsurpe not onely the name and title of valorous but also of honest men as though it were all one to be valiant with armes in hand and be an honest man but as it is false that one wicked by being valorous may be good so is it as falfe that he may be termed a man of valor Signior Guilio Caesare confirmd this saying the Count Scandiano doubted after this maner You signior Hercules amongest the principall properties of Nobilitie haue placed not onely renowne of auncesters but also of Country as though the property of ancieÌ„t famous bloud were not sufficient notwithstanding one were borne in a small village to illustrate and make noble a progenie but if we turne ouer ancient and moderne Recordes we shall finde most noble and famous families to haue taken their originall in base and humble place and to discourse somewhat further the same heauen couereth all things and heateth them the selfe sunne illuminateth and to man of al other creatures most excellent there is not limited one earthly habitation only as to the other but through diuine fauor the whole worlde hee being in his life time an inhabiter of the whole earth and being worthy after death to be a citizen of heauen wherefore good Diogenes demaunded of what countrey he was a citizen of the world answered he minding to inferre that not a mans country but vertue administreth honor and glorie and that a man ought to boast not of his country but only of vertue the which of it selfe is sufficient to illustrate the obscurest countrey whatsoeuer as Anacharsis the Scithian Philosopher expresseth very wel who to a foolish Athenian that obiected vnto him the basenesse of his countrey answered My base country I by vertue ennoble and thou thy country noble obscurest by vice And we reade that the vertue of Homer mooued emulation amongst seauen of the principall citties of Graecia each of them vaunting that hee was borne their originall citizen doing this for no other cause but to make themselues famous with the renowne of this mannes vertue by which it is manifest that the vertuous man giueth and receiueth not honour from his countrey As I beleeue therefore the definition of nobilitie woulde be much more perfect if it wanted this clause notwithstanding I expect that you lay open my errour And Varano As Nature and GOD haue made manne Lorde of the earth and cittizen of the worlde so hath he not in the globe of the whole earth one place more then another appropriate for his birth and habitation in that as experience teacheth he might liue and inhabite in all places notwithstanding by fortune hee hath his birth more in one then in another and the place where hee is borne and nourished wee call his country and natiue soyle A man therefore by nature is a cittizen of the world and by fortune of the land and prouince where he was borne neither can it bee denied also that citties and places of a land are greatly different as also I will not heere moue consideration of diuersitie of climates which as appereth also in vnreasonable creatures ordinarily make wonderfull difference in the stature and complexion of the body affections of minde as the Philosopher affirmeth speaking of the nature of the people of Asia and Greece but diuersity of lawes manners and customes are such as what in one cittie seemeth vniust and impious in another is admitted as honest and iust which being true wee must of necessitie confesse that one borne and nourished in a cittie built and augmented by men heroycall grounded by excellent lawes where prudence sapience and all other liberall artes are practised is reputed much more vertuous then another borne and brought vp in a countrie where barbarous laws vnciuill customes and no other artes be professed and practised but those mechanicall and base with which reason moued the Philosopher saide that Barbarians neuer were nor could bee called perfectly noble Country therefore importeth so greatly as without the glory of it no perfect nobilitie can bee framed I say perfect because he may also bee called noble who is descended of ancient and vertuous parentage although in meane and humble place You haue so well resolued my doubt saide Scandiano as that I cannot but replie and confesse that honor of country is necessarie to perfect nobilitie Signior Varano must needs satisfie me also saide Guirino for it will not sinke into my head that Nobilitie is an extern all good or of fortune especially hee hauing assirmed that nobility is euer ioyned with vertue the which vertue as it is neither of Fortune nor by Fortune the Philosopher so teaching so can it not be an eternall good For vertue being an habite and perfection of our minde it cannot but be numbred amongst those goods which in vs be intrinsecate loose therefore my doubt and this your manifest contradiction And Varano Signior Guirino propoundeth an excellent probleme whether nobility bee in the number of those goods internall or that it be externall and of Fortune and to shew the dexterity of his singular wit as though he conceiued not the truth hee concludeth by our own position that nobility is not a good externall nor of Fortune we hauing affirmed that in it vertue as also other poynts precious and honourable were contained To which we easily make answere if wee shal but consider what before I haue said for it is true that nobility may be placed amongst those goods of Fortune as that which happneth beyond the intention of Nature and is by the Philosopher numbred among those goods which are not in our selues for although it haue originall from vertue yet dependeth it not of the onely vertue of him that possesseth it but rather of

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