A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 196
)en archeson each face, was removedin the sixteenth centuryby order of the Spanishgoverhor of Milan, onthe pretence that so loftya tower threatened thesafety of his palace hardby. But the belfry, withthe stage below it, hasbeen rebuilt during thelast twenty years. (SeeFig. 80.) With manyvariations… … Fig. lO^. b. Giorgio in Velabro. and it was carried by Lombard builders far beyond the borders ofItaly into Germany and southern France. It is singular that the oldest square towers now in existence arethose of Kome. The one concession made by the conservatism of 170 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Rome to…
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