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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 147

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ewhere in Italy; they are either large pyramidal 92 VERONA. [Chap. VI. canopies supported upon trefoiled arches resting on fourmarble shafts, with a kind of sarcophagus or an effigybeneath ; or else, when attached to a wall, they have twodetached shafts supporting the same kind of trefoiled archand… … Doon-rnAME—STA. anaptasta. of iron connecting the capitals of the columns. This,however, is soon forgotten when one feels that there is nopretence ever or anywhere at its concealment; and notwith-standing this slight defect, one cannot help loving andadmiring them ; for there is a grace and beauty…

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