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 480
ern from the ridge tothe base of the spire is about ninety feet, and the efiect ofthe complicated brickwork is not bad. It is somewliat diffi-cult to say exactly when it was built. The Certosa itself wasfounded in 1135, and consecrated in 1228, but my impressionis decidedly that though the whole… … <S0. CEI^TOSA OF CHlRX{hVhUhE p.33 0. (■iiAP. XII.] An^.IKJELLT. 331 respects sonicwliat similar in detail to this, dates from 1339,and it would be a great mistake to argue for an earlier datein either case from the mere use of the round arch. If Irecollect right, the low third stage in height…
