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 165
d ingroined bays, and sup-ported by massive col-umns. Over it is thegreat dormitory of themonks.^The monks of Casamariseem to have been amongthe most energetic oftheir order. During thefirst quarter of the thir-teenth century, theyfounded, besides carrying-on the works of their own Fig. 334.… … THE MONASTERIES 149 importance, — S. Maria d Arbona, near Chieti, in the recesses of theAbruzzi, in 1208, and ten years later that of San Galgano, g. Mariasome twenty miles from Siena. Of the first of these no- dArbona.thing now remains save the church and chapter-house. But these arestill in…
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