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 300
to an independent existence, and which,by virtue of its position and the restless energy of its people, hadcreated and maintained a foreign commerce far in advance of anyof its rivals, the civic spirit of the people was stimulated to thehighest point during the eleventh century by the constant wars… … Fij4*. 212. Pisa. S. Sepolcnj. ^ * Now ■when the third year after the aforementioned one thousandth year was draw-ing* nigh, men began, all over the world, but particularly in Italy, and Gaul, to renew theedifices of the church, although the greater portion of them were so noble as not to re-quire…
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