A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 120
reg-ular pentagon measuring about LiO ft. oneach side, and enclosing a circular court65 ft. in diameter, with an arcade of roundarches on coupled columns. The castlesits on a high terrace, whose outline isparallel with its walls, and to which theapproach is by two stately double stair-cases on the… … Fig 44,-Caprarola. Castle. Scale of 100 feet. Above tlie tcrraee rises the mass of thecastle itself, in two stages, each abont 30ft. high, witli an order of pilasters, Ionicin the lower stage, Corinthian in the nj)-per. tJie former enclosing round archesand high pedimented windows, and theuppei.…
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