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 253
s case, as in that of the Verona tower, the belfry and spirewere later additions, and were not completed till after 1400. Of the fortified towers which protected the gates of the cities, veryfew are left. The Porta Torre at Como is one of theearliest of these, dating from 1192. (Fig. 393.) The… … Fig. 394. Florence. Porta San Gallo. Gate-towers. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 239 usual battlements. At Florence several of the ancient gate-towersare still in existence. The Porta San Niecola is similar in desiouto the tower of Conio just mentioned, except that it has but threestages and a single…
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