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 363
n the road we passed Yilla Franca, a small town whichhas a rather striking castle, with battlemented walls and agood many square towers, still very fairly perfect; the wholebuilt in brick, and with battlements finished square at thetop, and not forked lik(; those at Yerona. We reached the station… … Chai. X.] MANTUA. 255 within its walls have to submit with the host grace thatthey call. ]\[antna is nearly surrounded by water ; two large shallowand unwholesome-looking lakes giving it this far frompleasant kind of isolation. Over a long mediaeval bridgebetween these waters the way into the city…
