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 42
of nuns, of which the fine cloister still remainswith some sixty columns, extremely varied in form and design, andwith much archaic sculpture in the capitals.^ At Brindisi is the small church of S. Giovanni Battista, datingprobably from the middle of the ninth century, when it Bj.jjj^jgjwas… … opens into a choirconsisting of a squaregroined bay with around apse. The re-mainder of the innerring is enclosed by acircular aisle, dividedby arches into irregu-larly vaulted bays.The roof of the innercircle, presumably ofwood, has disap-peared and the inte-rior is choked withshrubbery. On…
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