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 262
^ of the earlier castles gave way beforethe softening influences of a less savage state of society ; and nothing … Fig-. 401. Pavia. Castle of the Visconti. is more-significant of the gradual mitigation of the mediaeval barbar-ity and violence than this change. In the castle of the Visconti atPavia, for instance, built not much after the middle of the visconti,fourteenth century, — a great square of nearly four…
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