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Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy (1874)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London : J. Murray · leaf 136

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l doves, whose choice of a home in thewalls of this tall Veronese tower will make me think kindlyof putlog-holes for the future. Certainly, if the Italian andEnglish principles of tower-building are to be compared withone another, the Italian need give no fairer examj)le of itspower than this… … ; Chap. VI.] VERONA. 85 and then entirely with brick, pierced with only one or twosmall openings, and terminating with a simple belfry-stage;the belfry windows, with their arches formed without mould-ings, and with the sharp edges only of brick and stone1 used alternately, are divided into three…

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