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 250
et thick,with few and nar-row openings. Thelower story was oftenvaulted, with an aper-ture at the crown ofthe vault throughwhich in war-time thedefenders mountedby rope ladders. Cor-bels projected fromthe walls at intervalsfor the support ofscaffoldings for theuse of the fighting-men. The roof… … Fig. 391. Brescia. Torre della Pallata. The security which they gave to the nobles enabled them to defy theefforts of the citizens to resist their constant outrages, and the streets of 1 Perrens, La Civilisation Florentine, p. 21; Sismondi, History of the Italian Republics. In Lucca, atout 1322,…
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