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 251
nd the passes of the mountains.From these secure fortresses, the lords issued for war or for plunder,as occasion offered, levying tolls on all travellers, and embarrassingseriously the commerce of the cities. Their depredations becameat length ^o intolerable that the cry went up from the cities,… … Fig-. 390. The Towers of San Gimig-nano. cities supporting her, a great destruction of castles went on all overthe North of Italy.^ The lords, thus dispossessed of their strong-holds, were forced to come into the cities, and submit themselves tothe authority of the municipal governments. Special…
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