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 229
ed torender it fit for the occupation of Mdlle. Taglioni,and, in the next place, much of the elaborate decora-tion, from which it derived its name, has perished orbeen destroyed : as it is, ho^^ever, it is still a verysumptuous example of the later fourteenth centuryGrothic. Its whole face is… … The open arcade on the water story, and the traceriedarcades above, all open into recessed courts, an ar-rangement peculiar, I think, to this house, and sofar similar in its purpose to thearcades in the Ducal Palace. Someof the balconies are good, andthe carving of the capitals andmoulding of the…
