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 255
) Such was the tower of the commune at Mantua, and also atMantua the Torre della Gabbia, built perhaps by the commune and perhaps by the fam-ily of the Buonacolsias part of their pal-ace, in 1302. Suchwas the well-knowntower in the greatsquare of Verona,built about 1172 bythe Lamberti, andcoming… … Fig. 394. Florence. Porta San Gallo. dition of a smaller octagonal stage above it. In the present instance,the change resulted in one of the most striking and beautiful towersin Italy. (Fig. 392.) The magnificent tower of St. Mark at Venice was founded in 902,and thirty years later was, according…
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