Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy (1855)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J.Murray · leaf 223
ver so absolutely necessary. The palacesrose out of the dark water which washed againsttheir foundations, and no gronnd could be givenup for shady arcades as in other Italian cities, norwere there any paths to be strolled along; the onlyresource was, therefore, to gain from the air thatwhich the… … Balcony — Venice. Chap. YIII. BALCONIES. 159 conies are almost always very similar, consisting of anumber of delicate shafts with carved capitals, support-ing a piece of stone whose under side is notched up ina series of trefoils (generally ogee), resting upon thecapitals of the shafts. These are…
