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The builders of Florence (1907)

Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 97

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e summons of war, all was changed as if by magic ;the towers stripped for action like fighting ships of the line, takingin the lower galleries till the grim walls stood bare, their narrowwindows closed, and only above, far out of reach, a single project-ing battlement, piled with stones and filled… … ELEVATION AND (RESTORED) SECTION OF ROMAN DANUBE ROAD work—is distinctly Roman ; a copy of constructive methodsfamiliar in classic building. We may call it the Architecture of theBracket from its most distinctive feature ; and indeed the Bracket,as we meet it in these Florentine towers, was no new…

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