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 287
Fiff. 425. Taormina. Palazzo S. Stefano. 272 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY To conceive any clear idea of the successive forms of governmentTheir gov- which followed each other so rapidly in these restless com-emment. munities, is a difficult matter; since the accounts of thecontemporary chroniclers are… … —r*»V Fig. 426. Ravello. Plan of Casa Euffola. vested in a podesta, appointed at first by the emperor, and laterelected by the citizens or by their council.^ The podesta was always transcribers of MSS. In war the city and its dependent territory could put in the field8000 gentlemen cavalry and…
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