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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 478

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ntern from the ridge tothe base of the spire is about ninety feet, and the effect ofthe complicated brickwork is not bad. It is somewhat 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… … £0. CEKTOSft OF OHIftMVjRlcLfK p.330. Chap. XII.] VERCELLI. 331 respects somewhat 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 at…

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