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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 303

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ge-structure.NAPLES (Xapoli), Italy. Arch of Alfonso, one of the richestand most elaborate of the commemorativeinonuments of the Renaissance. It wasbuilt in 14T0, to celebrate the entry ofAlfonso of Aragon. Its architect is doubt-ful, but it has been assigned both toIiefro di ^lartino. of Milan,… … NAPLES Niiovo. It is in four.stu<,es, through throe ofwliich rise continuedside buttresses flankinga curtuin wall. Thefirst and third storiesconsist each of an orderof columns, Corinthianin the first story andComposite in the third,coupled upon the but-tresses at the a n g 1 c swith decorated…

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