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 302
ninety thousand. The one statement is doubtless as true as theother. The loggia is about thirty-two feet square, with a broad andhigh round arch in each face, — that on the front, which forms theentrance, being closed by a magnificent gate of wrought iron, ofthe simplest design. great vigor but… … plainly to beseen. The side of thepalace, particularlywhen taken in con-nection with the ad-jacent building ofsomewhat later date,containing in thebasement the prisonsof the commune, wasscarcely less strikingthan the front in thegreat square. Thetwo buildings werejoined by a broad lowsegmental arch…
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