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 252
ten, fifteen, and sixteen thousand. This is, of course, absurd, sincethere is no reason to suppose that the population of Pisa ever exceeded that of Florence,which is believed never to have passed one hundred thousand. A more reasonableground for estimate is in the allusions of contemporary… … Fig. 391. Brescia. Torre della Pallata. 236 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY every Italian city were the scene of continual broils and skirmishes.The pages of Machiavelli teem with riot and bloodshed. The distracted burghers found themselves again forced to abate an intolera-ble nuisance by restricting the…
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