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 284
f Chiaramonti,warm rivals of the Sclafani, had also built a palace, which is nowused as a court house, but was in the beginning known as the Steripalace. It is of sterner architecture than that last noticed, with alower story nearly or quite thirty feet high without openings, andtwo upper stories,… … Fig-. 422. Palermo. Palazzo Sclafani. gone. The inner court is much changed, retaining little of its origi-nal aspect, but the great hall of the principal story has still its elab-orate ceiling with its Saracenic decoration.^ 1 Mothes, pp. 584, 585; Gaily Knight, Sar. and Nor. Rem., pi. 26. 2…
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