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 200
ee large open arches on each face, was removed in the sixteenth century by order of the Spanish governor of Milan, on the pretence that so lofty a tower threatened the safety of his palace hard by. But the belfry, with the stage below it, has been rebuilt during the last twenty years. (See Fig.… … Fig. 108. S. Giorg-io in Velabro. and it was carried by Lombard builders far beyond the borders ofItaly into Gerinany and southern France. It is singular that the oldest square towers now in existence arethose of Rome. The one concession made by the conservatism of 170 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Rome to…
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