D'Auvergne, Edmund B. (Edmund Basil) · London, T.W. Laurie · leaf 154
rded by glimpses of thesimple vaulting and stern, solid masonry characteristicof Norman architecture in other and distant lands. At Termoli, a little town on the coast of theAbruzzi, looking towards the Tremiti isles, is anotherstronghold of the all-conquering race. It is believed tohave been built… … SOME SWABIAN AND NORMAN CASTLES 117 like a truncated pyramid, which on one side slopes downto the seashore. At each of the four angles of thisplatform is a turret of the bartizan type. In this castleTancred, the hero of Tassos epic, held his court in1156; and his name reminds us of another castle…
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