Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 406
ic buildings of Florence. Inour study of the Bargello we saw how some unknown builderimitated there the palace, elsewhere evolved by the slow progress ofcombined tower-building about the insulce, and suddenly revealedin these groups by the action of the law passed in 1250 to restraintheir height.… … ^§6iA dei^ii THE PALAZZO DELLA SIGNORIA 387 Arnolfo, we have an actual tower of former times, not left at onecorner like the Volognana of the Bargello, but lost to sight onlybecause incorporated in the substance of the facade ; it is the build-ing unit of old Florence preserved, like a fly in…
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