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Brick and marble in the Middle Ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy (1855)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 160

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them untilI am describing the palaces andancient buildings of Venice.They are almost always finishedwith ogeed trefoils at the top,and are arranged singly, or incouples or more together, oneabove the other, the same in each ^story of the house; their mould-ings are thin and reedy, and thecarving of… … Domestic window, Verona. 106 VEEONA. Chap. YI. round it. The opposite bank is only partially builtover, and bas a kind of suburb, upon rather rapidlyrising ground; beyond this the walls of the city areseen with occasional towers, and marked all the wayby their serrated battlements climbing the…

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