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 361
On the road we passed Villa 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 like those at Verona. We reached the station… … Chap. X.] MANTUA. 255 within its walls have to submit with the best grace thatthey can. Mantua 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…
