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 184
s;but there is no example in Italy, so far as I know, of a tower endingin a true spire, — the Gothic form of roof, prepared for from the THE GOTHIC 167 foundation, and forming the only logical and consistent terminationto the desion. AYe find, indeed, examples in which the tower roof is so steep… … Fig-. 846. Assisi. S. Francesco. Exterior. the original design, but, whether from failure of resources or a rad-ical disaffection towards that termination, was never executed. But.every such instance does but confirm the conviction that the spirewas never a congenial feature in Italian…
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