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 288
ades is a continuous balconydivided into square panels carrying armorial shields, and having inthe middle ths ringhiera, which sufficiently indicates the original pur-pose of the building.^ 1 Sismondi, History of the Italian Mepublics. 2 Galvaneus Flamma, a Milanese chronicler, writing- about 1350,… … Fig. 425. Taormina. Palazzo S. Stefano. 272 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY To conceive any clear idea of the successive forms of governmentTheir gov- wliich follov/cd cach other so rapidly in these restless com-ernment. munitics, is a difficult matter; since the accounts of thecontemporary chroniclers are…
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