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 314
ampo santoofSanto. Thesoldiers of the secondcrusade, returning toPisa towards the endof the twelfth centuryunder Bishop Lan-franchi, broughthome with them fromPalestine, as is re-corded in the chroni-cles of the time, livehundred ship - loadsof sacred earth. AVemay allow what weplease for the… … 288 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY thirteenth century was well advanced before the work was begun.The foundations of the Campo Santo were only laid in 1278. Itconsists of a great rectangle about seventy feet wide and three hun-dred and fifty feet long, surrounded by a cloister some thirty-five feetwide,…
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