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 252
e eleventh tothe fifteenth centuriesby the communesthemselves, mostlyduring the twelfthcentury, but also ear-lier and later, — toserve the double pur-pose of bell - towersand watch-towers. They were sometimes raised over the town-gates,more often in the public square or as a part of the town hall.… … Fig. 393. Como. Porta Torre. in the Garisencla to something like eight feet, and in the Asinelli to five. As in the caseof the Pisa tower, this inclination has been by many writers presumed to have beenintentional on the part of the builders. Such a theory appears unreasonable on everyground, but…
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