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 99
elieve, first for its con-nection with a story of the generosity of Bayard, the chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, and next forthe large discoveries of Roman remains which havefrom time to time been made there. It is one ofthose towns, moreover, of which guide-books, with animmense list of… … Chap. V. THE CATHEDRALS. 65 of Christian art, since, though its churches are manyand bad, it has, in the Broletto, sadly mutilated as itis, the remains of one of the most extensive and grandof these buildings anywhere remaining, and almostentirely executed in very excellent brickwork. Our first…
