s in quiet garden quarters—likethose of the Zisa outside Palermo, with its stalactiteceiling, its walls panelled with precious marbles andgorgeous golden mosaics, the little tinkling rill ofwater, kept cool in the Oriental way by runningdown over a carved slab, flanked by inlaid stepswhich once… … AKABO-NORMAN PALACES forward in his fine standard work— Essai surIarchitecture des Arabes et des Mores en Espagne,en Sicile et en Barbarie, published in 1841. But it is a far cry in archaBology from 1841 to191 o. For the Cuba all doubts were solved as soonas Amari, then a political exile in Paris,…
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