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 340
the place to itsmisery without any of the compensating gains of commerce.Certainly Torcello is a degree more wretched and deserted, Chap. IX.] THE DUOMO. 243 but these two old cities have few compeers in misery, and Iadvise no one but an antiquary to make the pilgrimage toAquileja, who is not quite… … patriarchs throne—aquileja. apses east of the transept, and eleven arches between the naveand aisles. The arrangements of the apse are interesting ;two nights of steps lead up to it from the nave, and in thecentre of the east wall is the patriarchs throne of whitemarble, well raised on a platform…
