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 263
ll near Andria inApulia, and which is one of the most interesting remains of thedomestic architecture of the Middle Ages, had a remarkable history.The Lombard Ratchis took it from the Byzantines in the ninth cen-tury, but the Saracens got it in 1009; in 1070 it was destroyed bythe victorious… … ter, with walls nearly ninefeet thick, and an octa-gonal tower at each angle.(Fig. 404.) There aretwo stories, each dividedinto eight vaulted roomsby radiating walls fromeach angle of the build-ing. On the second storythe angle towers, which,in the first story, are oc-cupied by spiral stair-cases,…
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