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 251
na known asthe Asinelli and Garisenda, dat-ing from the beginning of thetwelfth century, which have nowa height of two hundred andtwenty-five and one hundred andthirty feet respectively. Whetherthe latter is the original height ofthe Garisenda, or whether, like somany others of its class, it wascut… … La torrita Pavia, La torrita Cremona, La torrita Pisa, etc. In San Gimignano,not far from Siena, we may see Avhat is probably the nearest approach to the towered city of the eleventh and twelfth centuries which remains to us, yet the number of towersstill standing in San Gimignano is only thirteen.…
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