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 198
s. (Fig. 110.) ^ Hiibsch believes this campanile to be the oldest in Rome : but this is scarcely credi-ble. On the other hand. Gregorovius. on the authority of Frodoard. — De Stefano II.— believes the campanile of !St. Peters, added to the basilica by that pontiff in 755, tobe the first of its kind… … Fig-. 110. Campanile. Terracina. 172 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY I have spoken of the Koiiian campaniles as belonging to the Lom-hnrd type of towers. It is quite possible that the oldest of them were begun, or were even finishedto a certain height, independentof Lombard influence, and as aconsequence of…
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