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 251
rather striking castle, with battlementedwalls and a good many square towers still very fairlyperfect; the whole built in brick, and with battlementsfinished square at the top, and not forked like thoseat Yerona. We reached the station at Mantua by twelve oclock,but, as this was very far from the… … Chap. IX. MANTUA: THE DUCAL PALACE. 183 Mantua is nearly surrounded by water, two largeshallow and unwholesome-looking lakes giving it thisfar from pleasant kind of isolation. Over a long-mediaeval bridge between these waters the way intothe city from the terminus lies. One of the lakes ishigher…
