Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 253
nd suchdisphicementof tlie great marble blocks can be accountedfor only in one way, — l\y attributing them to a vortex-like movement of the earth. Fontana has described in anote-book, now preserved in the state Archives, the diffi-culties he had to overcome in setting the pillar straightby drawing… … The ruined church of the Fraticclli on the Monte Sant Angehi above Poll was compelled to l)ind the whole column with steelbands, wound with hemp and wool, so as not to injureits surface, and to erect a strong scaffold to lift theblocks into ])lace. And for this work he received a com-pensation of…
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