lls still surround the town on the threesides towards the land; they are plain curtainswithout bastions except at the angles, and are of nogreat apparent strength as military works even ofthe middle ages, being probably intended as adefence rather against surprise than against regularsiege… … Fig- 85- Marcello and the initials 10-M, probably the scutcheonof a count or provveditore of that family. The Lion ofSt. Mark which was placed between the two shieldshas been defaced by some Frank or Teuton sujDplanter. I 2 Ii6 Cher so. [Ch. xxv. From this and another simpler gate, similar in…
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