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 302
78 and entered a monastery. Whether church or palace was finished is uncertain. Both were probablyof wood. Various oldchroniclers speak ofa new S. Marco asbegun in 1043, andas being built ofbrick. This is thechurch for the deco-ration of which theDoge Selvo collectedwith such indefatiga-ble zeal… … Fig. 441. Faiio. Palazzo della Ragione. to-day. As to thecondition of the adja-cent palace in theseyears we are left in ignorance. But as this was the period at whichthe private palaces of the Byzantine style were built, which I havespoken of in a previous chapter, there is little doubt that the…
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